karthik-cbe/pac4j

Security engine for Java (authentication, authorization, multi frameworks): OAuth, CAS, SAML, OpenID Connect, LDAP, JWT...

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.

Available implementations (Get started by clicking on your framework):

J2E • Spring Web MVC (Spring Boot) • Spring Security (Spring Boot) • Apache Shiro

Play 2.x • Vertx • Spark Java • Ratpack • Pippo • Undertow

CAS server • JAX-RS • Dropwizard • Apache Knox • Jooby

Authentication mechanisms:

OAuth (Facebook, Twitter, Google...) - SAML - CAS - OpenID Connect - HTTP - OpenID - Google App Engine - Kerberos (SPNEGO/Negotiate)

LDAP - SQL - JWT - MongoDB - CouchDB - IP address - REST API

Authorization mechanisms:

Roles/permissions - Anonymous/remember-me/(fully) authenticated - Profile type, attribute

CORS - CSRF - Security headers - IP address, HTTP method

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Versions

The version 3.0.0-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 [email protected]: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.

Third-party extensions

There exist extensions to pac4j developed by third parties. The extensions provide features not available in the core pac4j distribution. At the moment, the following extension are known:

• IDC Extensions to PAC4J, developed internally by IDC and published as open source.

Need help?

If you need commercial support (premium support or new/specific features), contact us at [email protected].

If you have any question, please use the pac4j mailing lists:

• pac4j users
• pac4j developers