org.talika.tarsis.security
Class AuthenticatorService

java.lang.Object
  org.talika.tarsis.service.AbstractService
      org.talika.tarsis.security.AuthenticatorService

All Implemented Interfaces:

Authenticator, Service

Direct Known Subclasses:

MemoryAuthenticator

public abstract class AuthenticatorService
extends AbstractService
implements Authenticator

Base implementation of Authenticator interface.

Authenticator plugs in system like a service by extending AbstractService.

Version:

$Revision: 124 $

Author:

Jose M. Palomar

Constructor Summary

AuthenticatorService()
creates a new AuthenticatorService.

Method Summary

abstract SecuritySession

login(java.lang.String user, java.lang.String password) Checks if given user and password are correct.

Methods inherited from class org.talika.tarsis.service.AbstractService

destroy, getContext, getLogger, getName, init

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

AuthenticatorService

public AuthenticatorService()

creates a new AuthenticatorService.

Method Detail

login

public abstract SecuritySession login(java.lang.String user,
                                      java.lang.String password)
                               throws AuthenticationFailedException

Checks if given user and password are correct.

Specified by:

login in interface Authenticator

Parameters:

user - String user name.

password - String user password.

Returns:

SecuritySession security session created from given user and password.

Throws:

AuthenticationFailedException - if user and/or password aren't correct.

See Also:

Authenticator.login(String, String)