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Architecture: Overview

Architecture

This section gives an introduction to the internal architecture of the Permis PDP.

Most of the architecture documents listed here make use of UML diagrams and only feature terse description. For in depth information about the architecture please refer to your favourite IDE and the JavaDocs included in all classes.

Pages

Page Description
Access Decision Describes the sequence of events that lead to an access decision.
Domain Model Gives an overview of the domain model.
Implementation Shows the various implementation layers used by the PDP and the editor.
Policy Schema The xml schema of a Permis policy.
Internationalization This document gives an overview of I18N in the context of this project.
Auditing Overview of the auditing support in the PDP.
Logging Logging concept used in the project.
XACML Support Brief explanation of the Xacml features implemented in Permis.