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AbstractSecurityContext.java API Doc Glassfish v2 API 3200 Fri May 04 22:35:22 BST 2007 com.sun.enterprise.security

AbstractSecurityContext

java.lang.Object

public abstract class AbstractSecurityContext extends Object implements Serializable

This base class defines the methods that Security Context should exhibit. There are two places where a derived class are used. They are on the appclient side and ejb side. The derived classes can use thread local storage to store the security contexts.

author: Harpreet Singh

Fields Summary
protected Principal
initiator
protected Subject
subject
Constructors Summary
Methods Summary
public abstract java.security.Principal getCallerPrincipal()
This method should be implemented by the subclasses to return the caller principal. This information may be redundant since the same information can be inferred by inspecting the Credentials of the caller.
return
The caller Principal.
public abstract javax.security.auth.Subject getSubject()
This method should be implemented by the subclasses to return the Credentials of the caller principal.
return
A credentials object associated with the current client invocation.