Java Security Frameworks

A list of third party (i.e. not part of Java SE or EE) security frameworks. This page contains a list of Java security libraries and frameworks and indicates which security features each library supports.

Key Security Features

• Authentication (AU)
• Authorization / Access Control (AC)
• CSRF Defense (CF)
• Cryptography (CR)
• Input Validation (IV)
• Output Encoding (OE)
• XSS protection (XS)
• XML Security (XML)

Access Control (Authentication and Authorization)

• jGuard - jGuard is written in Java. Its goal is to provide a security framework based on JAAS (Java Authentication and Authorization Security). The framework is written for web and standalone applications, to easily provide solutions for access control problems.
• OACC - OACC is an application security framework for Java designed for fine grained (object level) access control. OACC uses the abstraction of a resource for the application objects being secured. This key abstraction enables OACC to provide a rich API that includes grant, revoke and query capabilities for storing and managing the application's security relationships.

Encryption

• Bouncycastle - Lightweight Java cryptography APIs
• Jasypt - Jasypt is a java library which allows the developer to add basic encryption capabilities to his/her projects with minimum effort, and without the need of having deep knowledge on how cryptography works.

Cross Site Scripting (XSS)

• OWASP Java Encoder Project is a Java 1.5+ simple-to-use drop-in high-performance encoder class with no dependencies to help Java web developers defend against Cross Site Scripting.
• OWASP Java HTML Sanitizer Project is a fast and easy to configure HTML Sanitizer written in Java which lets you include HTML authored by third-parties in your web application while protecting against XSS.
• OWASP Java JSON Sanitizer is a tool to convert JSON-like content to valid JSON! The OWASP JSON Sanitizer Project is a simple to use Java library that can be attached at either end of a data-pipeline

Enterprise

• Apache Shiro is a powerful and easy-to-use Java security framework that performs authentication, authorization, cryptography, and session management. With Shiro’s easy-to-understand API, you can quickly and easily secure any application – from the smallest mobile applications to the largest web and enterprise applications.
• OWASP Enterprise Security API a new OWASP project to provide all essential security services under one roof.
• HDIV A web application security framework that provides a number of functions.

Additional Java Security Libraries

Name and link	AU	AC	CF	CR	IV	OE	XM	XS
AntiSamy					Y	Y		Y
Apache Santuarrio							Y
Bouncy Castle				Y
CSRFGuard			Y	Y
ESAPI	Y	Y	?	Y	Y	Y		Y
Jasypt				Y
iGuard	Y	Y
OACC	Y	Y		Y	Y
Vlad					Y