Preface

* Audience

    The intended audience for this book is developers who use JPam. It should be able to be used to start from scratch,
     get up and running quickly, and also be useful for the more complex options.

    JPam is a missing piece in the Java - Unix security puzzle. Another natural audience is therefore security specialists.

    It is also intended for application and enterprise architects. JPam creates new possibilities. It is not necessary to
    front Java Application servers with Apache in order to plug in native security. You are no longer limited by the availability
    of Java implementations of security services.

* Book Format

    This content is suitable for use as an online PDF or printed. Blank pages have been deliberately left to give a good
    flow.

* Acknowledgements

    JPam has had contributions in the form of forum discussions, feature requests, bug reports, patches and code commits.

    Rather than try and list the many hundreds of people who have contributed to JPam in some way it is better to link
    to the web site where contributions are acknowledged in the following ways:

    * Bug reports and features requests appear in the changes report here: {{{http://jpam.sourceforge.net/changes-report.html}}}

    * Patch contributors generally end up with an author tag in the source they contributed to

    * Team members appear on the team list page here: {{{http://jpam.sourceforge.net/team-list.html}}}







