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ESAPI Framework Strategy
the esapi should
be defined such that it can be used on behalf of applications by frameworks including containers (unless the nature of the functionality is such that it can only work from the application). another way this was said, is such that the api is compatible with ioc.
share the representations of authentication state employed by the underlying framework or runtime environment.
leverage the access control primitives (e.j. Java permissions) employed by the underlying framework or runtime environment
where api must be embedded in app, consider separation of the specification of the logical effect of what must be achived (in the app) from the details of how it will be accomplished, such that different mechanisms can be bound to achieve the effect, such as the case with Java Annotations.