| The UserAuthenticator interface provides operations to authenticate
a user's credentials in order to successfully connect to a database.
Any user authentication schemes could be implemented using this interface
and registered at start-up time.
If an application requires its own authentication scheme, then it can
implement this interface and register as the authentication scheme
that Derby should call upon connection requests to the system.
See the dcoumentation for the property derby.authentication.provider
A typical example would be to implement user authentication using
LDAP, Sun NIS+, or even Windows User Domain, using this interface.
Note: Additional connection attributes can be specified on the
database connection URL and/or Properties object on jdbc connection. |