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| Interface Summary | |
|---|---|
| Destroyable | Objects such as credentials may optionally implement this interface to provide the capability to destroy its contents. | 
| Refreshable | Objects such as credentials may optionally implement this interface to provide the capability to refresh itself. | 
| Class Summary | |
|---|---|
| AuthPermission | This class is for authentication permissions. | 
| Policy | Deprecated. as of JDK version 1.4 -- Replaced by java.security.Policy. | 
| PrivateCredentialPermission | This class is used to protect access to private Credentials
 belonging to a particular Subject. | 
| Subject | A Subjectrepresents a grouping of related information
 for a single entity, such as a person. | 
| SubjectDomainCombiner | A SubjectDomainCombinerupdates ProtectionDomains
 with Principals from theSubjectassociated with thisSubjectDomainCombiner. | 
| Exception Summary | |
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| DestroyFailedException | Signals that a destroyoperation failed. | 
| RefreshFailedException | Signals that a refreshoperation failed. | 
This package provides a framework for authentication and authorization. The framework allows authentication to be performed in pluggable fashion. Different authentication modules can be plugged under an application without requiring modifications to the application itself. The authorization component allows specification of access controls based on code location, code signers and code executors (Subjects).
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