Abstract:
A bundle-to-bundle authentication process is presented that provides a flexible authentication mechanism to application bundles for accessing the persistence bundle of a modular application and requesting security sensitive data from a database. The modular application comprises a plurality of bundles such as application bundles, connector bundles, persistence bundles, authentication bundles, and so on. During runtime of the modular application, the application bundles and the connector bundles may need access to security protected resources (sensitive data) stored in the database. To access these resources, the application bundles and the connector bundles should authenticate themselves with the persistence bundle. The persistence bundle provides the communication with the database.