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
GeneralizedAuthenticationManager	Marker interface that combines the legacy AuthenticationManager and the new JASPI (JSR-196) ServerAuthContext interfaces
ISecurityManagement	Interface to obtain the various managers for security like authentication, authorization, audit, identitytrust etc
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
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.
SubjectInfo	Holds information - principal, credential and subject This class is handled by the Util class associated with the security context

Package org.jboss.security Description

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