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GeoFence is a java web application that provides an advanced authentication/authorization engine for GeoServer using the interface described in GSIP 57.
Once integrated with GeoFence, GeoServer will send authorization queries to GeoFence using a configurable internal protocol (by default it uses Spring remoting over HTTP).
GeoFence provides a complete REST API for the programmatic administration of the rules and their ancillary data.
GeoFence also used to provide a graphical user interface to administer GeoServer users and authorization rules upto versione 3.6.
The upgrade to JDK11 dropped the support for the used client libraries, so since versione 3.7 the only way to interact with a standalone GeoFence is through its API.
GeoFence can be run either as a standalone web application, or, since GeoServer 2.8 and GeoFence 3.0, embedded in GeoServer.
As a standalone webapp, a single GeoFence instance may handle the authorization and authentication for one or more GeoServer instances. Such GeoServer instances may be configured as a cluster or not, making no difference to GeoFence.
The embedded architecture will only provide authorization services to the local GeoServer, and will use the users and roles information provided by the local GeoServer.
GeoFence core modules and GUI are free and Open Source software, released under the GPL v2 license.