pac4j
is an easy and powerful security engine for Java to authenticate users, get their profiles and manage authorizations in order to secure web applications.
It provides a comprehensive set of concepts and components. It is based on Java 8 and available under the Apache 2 license. It is available for most frameworks / tools and supports most authentication / authorization mechanisms.
J2E • Spring Web MVC (Spring Boot) • Spring Security (Spring Boot) • Apache Shiro
Play 2.x • Vertx • Spark Java • Ratpack • Undertow
CAS server • JAX-RS • Dropwizard • Apache Knox • Jooby
OAuth (Facebook, Twitter, Google...) - SAML - CAS - OpenID Connect - HTTP - OpenID - Google App Engine
LDAP - SQL - JWT - MongoDB - Stormpath - IP address
Roles / permissions - Anonymous / remember-me / (fully) authenticated - Profile type, attribute
CORS - CSRF - Security headers - IP address, HTTP method
The version 1.9.7-SNAPSHOT is under development. Maven artifacts are built via Travis: and available in the Sonatype snapshots repository.
The source code can be cloned and locally built via Maven:
git clone git@github.com:pac4j/pac4j.git
cd pac4j
mvn clean install
The latest released version is the , available in the Maven central repository. See the release notes.
Read the documentation for more information.
If you have any question, please use the following mailing lists: