Package org.jboss.security

The basic security interfaces and classes are now located in the jbosssx module.

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Interface Summary

Interface	Description
AuthenticationManager	The AuthenticationManager is responsible for validating credentials associated with principals.
AuthorizationManager	Generalized Authorization Manager Interface.
BaseSecurityManager	Interface that defines common behavior among the various Security Managers
CacheableManager<T,K>	An interface for managers that allow cached values.
CertificatePrincipal	An interface for converting an X509 cert to a Principal
GeneralizedAuthenticationManager	Marker interface that combines the legacy AuthenticationManager and the new JASPI (JSR-196) ServerAuthContext interfaces
IAppPolicyStore	An interface describing an AppPolicy security store.
ISecurityManagement	Interface to obtain the various managers for security like authentication, authorization, audit, identitytrust etc
JSSESecurityDomain	Security domain used for configuring SSL.
PasswordCache	Interface to cache passwords retrieved from external commands.
PicketBoxLogger
PicketBoxMessages
RealmMapping	The interface for Principal mapping.
RunAs	Represent an entity X with a proof of identity Y
SecurityConstants	Defines Constants for usage in the Security Layer
SecurityContext	Encapsulation of Authentication, Authorization, Mapping and other security aspects at the level of a security domain
SecurityDomain	The SecurityDomain interface combines the SubjectSecurityManager and RealmMapping interfaces and adds a keyStore and trustStore as well as JSSE KeyManagerFactory and TrustManagerFactory accessors for use with SSL/JSSE.
SecurityManagerLocator	Locator for the various security managers
ServerAuthenticationManager	AuthenticationManager with JSR-196 Semantics
SubjectFactory	This interface represents a factory for Subjects.
SubjectSecurityManager	All functionality in this interface is now in the base AuthenticationManager interface.

Class Summary

Class	Description
AltClientLoginModule	A simple implementation of LoginModule for use by JBoss clients for the establishment of the caller identity and credentials.
AnybodyPrincipal	An implementation of Principal and Comparable that represents any role.
AppPolicy	A combination of keystore, authentication and authorization entries.
AuthenticationInfo	The login module configuration information.
AuthorizationInfo
Base64Encoder	BASE64 encoder implementation.
Base64Utils	Base64 encoding/decoding utilities.
ClientLoginModule	A simple implementation of LoginModule for use by JBoss clients for the establishment of the caller identity and credentials.
ExternalPasswordCache	External command password cache.
JBossJSSESecurityDomain	A security domain used to configure SSL.
NestableGroup	An implementation of Group that allows that acts as a stack of Groups with a single Group member active at any time.
NestablePrincipal	An implementation of Group that allows that acts as a stack of Principals with a single Principal Group member active at any time.
NobodyPrincipal	An implementation of Principal and Comparable that represents no role.
RunAsIdentity	The RunAsIdentity is a Principal that associates the run-as principal with his run-as role(s).
SecurityContextAssociation	Security Context association in a threadlocal
SecurityContextFactory	Factory class to create Security Context instances
SecurityContextUtil	General Utility methods for dealing with the SecurityContext
SecurityIdentity	Represents an Identity of an agent interacting with the security service.
SecurityRoleRef	Represents a Security Role Ref element in the deployment descriptor
SecurityRolesAssociation	The SecurityRolesAssociation uses a ThreadLocal to associate the SecurityRoleMetaData from the deployment with the current thread.
SecurityUtil	Security Utility Class
SimpleGroup	An implementation of Group that manages a collection of Principal objects based on their hashCode() and equals() methods.
SimplePrincipal	A simple String based implementation of Principal.
SubjectInfo	Holds information - principal, credential and subject This class is handled by the Util class associated with the security context
Util	Util.

Package org.jboss.security Description

The basic security interfaces and classes are now located in the jbosssx module.