diff --git a/src/site/apt/index.apt b/src/site/apt/index.apt index 9c5b29ff06..c05037df68 100644 --- a/src/site/apt/index.apt +++ b/src/site/apt/index.apt @@ -1,16 +1,65 @@ -------------------------------- Acegi Security System for Spring -------------------------------- + -What is Acegi Security? +Spring Security 2.0.0 Released + + Acegi Security is now {{{http://www.springframework.org/projects/}Spring Security}}, + the official security project of the {{{http://www.springframework.org/projects/}Spring Portfolio}}. + If you are planning a new project, we'd recommend you consider using Spring Security. + Acegi Security 1.0.7 will be the last non-critical release of the 1.0.x series. + + Spring Security 2.0.0 builds on Acegi Security's solid foundations, adding many new features: - Acegi Security is a powerful, flexible security solution for enterprise software, - with a particular emphasis on applications that use - {{{http://www.springframework.org/}Spring}}. Using Acegi Security provides your - applications with comprehensive authentication, authorization, instance-based access control, - channel security and human user detection capabilities. + * Simplified namespace-based configuration syntax. Old configurations + could require hundreds of lines of XML but our new convention over configuration + approach ensures that many deployments will now require less than 10 lines. -Key Features + * OpenID integration, which is the web's emerging single sign on + standard (supported by Google, IBM, Sun, Yahoo and others) + + * Windows NTLM support, providing easy enterprise-wide single sign on + against Windows corporate networks + + * Support for JSR 250 ("EJB 3") security annotations, delivering a + standards-based model for authorization metadata + + * AspectJ pointcut expression language support, allowing developers to + apply cross-cutting security logic across their Spring managed objects + + * Substantial improvements to the high-performance domain object + instance security ("ACL") capabilities + + * Comprehensive support for RESTful web request authorization, which + works well with Spring 2.5's @MVC model for building RESTful systems + + * Long-requested support for groups, hierarchical roles and a user + management API, which all combine to reduce development time and + significantly improve system administration + + * An improved, database-backed "remember me" implementation + + * Support for portlet authentication out-of-the-box + + * Support for additional languages + + * Numerous other general improvements, documentation and new samples + + * New support for web state and flow transition authorization through + the Spring Web Flow 2.0 release + + * New support for visualizing secured methods, plus configuration + auto-completion support in Spring IDE + + * Enhanced WSS (formerly WS-Security) support through the Spring Web + Services 1.5 release + + Please visit {{{http://www.springframework.org/download}http://www.springframework.org/download}} + to download the latest release and access the change log. + + +Acegi Security - Key Features * <> Acegi Security 1.0.0 was released in May 2006 after more than two and a half years of use in large production software projects, 70,000+ downloads