org.jboss.security
Interface BaseSecurityManager

All Known Subinterfaces:

AuditManager, AuthenticationManager, AuthorizationManager, GeneralizedAuthenticationManager, IdentityTrustManager, MappingManager, SecurityDomain, ServerAuthenticationManager, SubjectSecurityManager

public interface BaseSecurityManager

Interface that defines common behavior among the various Security Managers

Since:

Sep 10, 2007

Version:

$Revision$

Author:

Anil.Saldhana@redhat.com

Method Summary

String

getSecurityDomain() Get the security domain from which the security manager is from.

Method Detail

getSecurityDomain

String getSecurityDomain()

Get the security domain from which the security manager is from. Every security manager belongs to a named domain. The meaning of the security domain name depends on the implementation. Examples range from as fine grained as the name of EJBs to J2EE application names to DNS domain names.

Returns:

the security domain name. May be null in which case the security manager belongs to the logical default domain.