org.deegree.services.controller.security.authorities
Interface AuthenticationAuthorityProvider

public interface AuthenticationAuthorityProvider

Version:

$Revision: 25579 $, $Date: 2010-07-28 13:01:33 +0200 (Wed, 28 Jul 2010) $

Author:

Andreas Schmitz, last edited by: $Author: aschmitz $

Method Summary

AuthenticationAuthority	getAuthenticationAuthority(URL configURL) Creates a new AuthenticationAuthority instance from the given configuration document.
String	getConfigNamespace() Returns the namespace for configurations documents that this provider handles.

Method Detail

getConfigNamespace

String getConfigNamespace()

Returns the namespace for configurations documents that this provider handles.

Returns:

the namespace for configurations documents, never null

getAuthenticationAuthority

AuthenticationAuthority getAuthenticationAuthority(URL configURL)

Creates a new AuthenticationAuthority instance from the given configuration document.

Parameters:

configURL - location of the configuration document, must not be null

Returns:

new authority store instance