01: /*
02:
03: This software is OSI Certified Open Source Software.
04: OSI Certified is a certification mark of the Open Source Initiative.
05:
06: The license (Mozilla version 1.0) can be read at the MMBase site.
07: See http://www.MMBase.org/license
08:
09: */
10:
11: package org.mmbase.util;
12:
13: /**
14: * Interface for the automatic generation of passwords.
15: * <br />
16: * The passwords generated by classes implementing this interface are based on a template.
17: * A template can exists of a number of characters, which are replaced by
18: * the generator.
19: * The meaning of the characters in a template is left to the implementing class.
20: *
21: * @deprecated no real need for an interface as there is only one implementation
22: * @application SCAN (users)
23: * @author Rico Jansen
24: * @author Pierre van Rooden (javadocs)
25: * @version $Id: PasswordGeneratorInterface.java,v 1.6 2004/09/30 14:07:11 pierre Exp $
26: */
27:
28: public interface PasswordGeneratorInterface {
29: /**
30: * Generate a password, based on a default template.
31: * @return the generated password.
32: */
33: public String getPassword();
34:
35: /**
36: * Generate a password, based on the given template.
37: * @param template the template the password should be based on.
38: * @return the generated password.
39: */
40: public String getPassword(String template);
41: }
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