This includes a user administration tool, a policy search engine and techniques for guaranteeing the policy hierarchy and detecting potential policy conflicts. The policy search engine enables the finding of relevant policies by keywords such as author, date, subject, target etc. Security mechanisms authenticate and control user activities , according to the user access rights and the integrated policy attribute named policy class. This attribute determines the access limits on the corresponding policy. The web browser represents the policy management console.
Policies have to be specified means HTML forms.
In order to be refined, policies will be distributed by email. This approach guarantees the policy hierarchy. Servlets are responsible for the server-side request process and the JDBC connection with the policy database. The HTML responses are dynamically generated according to the client profile. All these features are controlled in the background by security and authentication mechanisms making use of the cookie and the session tracking techniques supported by Java.