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3.2. JAAS Core Classes
The JAAS core classes can be broken down into three categories: common, authentication, and authorization. The following list presents only the common and authentication classes because these are the specific classes used to implement the functionality of JBossSX covered in this chapter.
These are the common classes:
Subject(javax.security.auth.Subject)
These are the authentication classes:
Configuration(javax.security.auth.login.Configuration)LoginContext(javax.security.auth.login.LoginContext)
These are the associated interfaces:
Principal(java.security.Principal)Callback(javax.security.auth.callback.Callback)CallbackHandler(javax.security.auth.callback.CallbackHandler)LoginModule(javax.security.auth.spi.LoginModule)

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