What are Security Domains

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1.6.5. Security Service The security domain information is stored in the file conf/login-config.xml as a list of named security domains, each of which specifies a number of JAAS [1] login modules which are used for authentication purposes in that domain. When you want to use security in an application, you specify the name of the domain you want to use in the application’s JBoss-specific deployment descriptors, jboss.xml (used in defining jboss specific configurations for an application) and/or jboss-web.xml (used in defining JBoss for a Web application. We'll quickly look at how to do this to secure the JMX Console application which ships with JBoss.