com.sun.enterprise.security.common

Class AbstractSecurityContext

java.lang.Object

com.sun.enterprise.security.common.AbstractSecurityContext

All Implemented Interfaces:

AppServSecurityContext, Serializable

Direct Known Subclasses:

ClientSecurityContext, SecurityContext

public abstract class AbstractSecurityContext
extends Object
implements AppServSecurityContext, 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

See Also:

Serialized Form

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field and Description
protected Principal	additional
protected Principal	initiator
protected Subject	subject

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
AbstractSecurityContext()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Principal	getAdditionalPrincipal()
abstract Principal	getCallerPrincipal() This method should be implemented by the subclasses to return the caller principal.
abstract Subject	getSubject() This method should be implemented by the subclasses to return the Credentials of the caller principal.
void	setAdditionalPrincipal(Principal principal)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Methods inherited from interface com.sun.enterprise.security.integration.AppServSecurityContext

getCurrentSecurityContext, newInstance, newInstance, setCurrentSecurityContext, setSecurityContextWithPrincipal, setUnauthenticatedSecurityContext

Field Detail

initiator

protected Principal initiator

subject

protected Subject subject

additional

protected Principal additional

Constructor Detail

AbstractSecurityContext

public AbstractSecurityContext()

Method Detail

getCallerPrincipal

public abstract 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.

Specified by:

getCallerPrincipal in interface AppServSecurityContext

Returns:

The caller Principal.

getSubject

public abstract Subject getSubject()

This method should be implemented by the subclasses to return the Credentials of the caller principal.

Specified by:

getSubject in interface AppServSecurityContext

Returns:

A credentials object associated with the current client invocation.

getAdditionalPrincipal

public Principal getAdditionalPrincipal()

setAdditionalPrincipal

public void setAdditionalPrincipal(Principal principal)