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Application Server Agents

The Application Server Agent is a collection of Java components that provide a full-featured SiteMinder Agent for securing WebLogic and WebSphere application server resources. The Application Server Agent integrates SiteMinder with the J2EE platform.

The Application Server Agent can protect the following components:

• Web Applications (including servlets, HTML pages, JSP, image files)
• JNDI lookups
• EJB components
• JMS connection factories, topics, and queues
• JDBC connection pools

The Application Server Agent is a single Agent, but from the perspective of the SiteMinder Policy Server, there are different Agent types that protect application server resources. The Agent types give the Application Server Agent the flexibility to protect servlets, and EJB components in two ways: using the Servlet, or EJB Agent respectively, or using the Web Agent.

Note: For more information on configuring SiteMinder to work with application server Agents, see the SiteMinder Application Server Agent Guide that applies to your platform.