Connectors suite for security plugins and extensions for the Payara Platform
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The connectors bundled in Payara Platform Community edition are documented in the Payara Platform Community documentation.
The connectors bundled in Payara Platform Enterprise edition are documented in the Payara Platform Enterprise documentation.
It's also possible to add these connectors to your application and run the application on any Java EE 8 or Jakarta EE runtime which supports the Security API.
In case you'd like to use a newer version of a connector on one of the Payara Platform runtimes (e.g. on Payara Server) which already contain an older version of the container, you need to do one of the 2 following things to select the version in your application:
- add a standard container into your application and disable classloading delegation (see ho to do it in Payara Community and Payara Enterprise)
- or add a standalone variant of the container in your application and import classes with the
fish.payara.security.connectorspackage instead of thefish.payara.security
Standalone connectors provide the same functionality as the standard connectors. But while the standard connectors are built to be integrated with Payara Platform runtimes (e.g. Payara Server), the standalone connectors are built to be safely included in the applications deployed to a Payara Platform runtime without any conflicts with the connectors in the runtime. This is done by shading the classes in teh connector and all its dependencies so that are in a different package name.
A standalone connector can be added into your application as a JAR library (or as a compile-time dependency in a WAR Maven project). In order to use it, follow the documentation of the standard connectors but use the fish.payara.security.connectors package instead of the fish.payara.security to import the classes.
The following security connectors have standalone variants. Click on them to see documentation of the latest features that aren't yet integrated in the Payara Platform: