com.ge.research.app.security
Class AuthenticationFactory

java.lang.Object
  com.ge.research.app.security.AuthenticationFactory

public class AuthenticationFactory

extends java.lang.Object

Version:

$Revision: 1.1 $ $Date: 2006/08/11 00:17:46 $

Author:

garbiras

Created on:

June 5, 2006

Field Summary

java.lang.String	DEFAULT_AUTHENTICATOR
protected java.util.logging.Logger	logger
protected java.lang.String	NOCONFIGURATION

Constructor Summary

AuthenticationFactory()

AuthenticationFactory(java.lang.String resourceBundle)

Method Summary

Authenticator	getAuthenticator() Returns a specific authenticator to use.
Authenticator	getAuthenticator(java.lang.String type)
Authenticator	getDefaultAuthenticator()

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

DEFAULT_AUTHENTICATOR

public final java.lang.String DEFAULT_AUTHENTICATOR

See Also:

Constant Field Values

NOCONFIGURATION

protected final java.lang.String NOCONFIGURATION

logger

protected final java.util.logging.Logger logger

Constructor Detail

AuthenticationFactory

public AuthenticationFactory()

AuthenticationFactory

public AuthenticationFactory(java.lang.String resourceBundle)

Method Detail

getAuthenticator

public Authenticator getAuthenticator()
                               throws SecurityException

Returns a specific authenticator to use. This method is intended to be overwritten by subclasses.

Returns:

The default authenticator

Throws:

SecurityException

See Also:

getDefaultAuthenticator()

getAuthenticator

public Authenticator getAuthenticator(java.lang.String type)
                               throws SecurityException

Parameters:

type - the configuration identifier of the authenticator to return

Returns:

The configured authenticator identified by type; Returns null if there is no configuration for the specified type

Throws:

SecurityException

getDefaultAuthenticator

public Authenticator getDefaultAuthenticator()
                                      throws SecurityException

Returns:

The configured default authenticator. If none is configured, it returns a new AcceptAllAuthenticator

Throws:

SecurityException