| edu.iu.uis.eden.security.DigitalSigner
All known Subclasses: edu.iu.uis.eden.security.AbstractDigitalSigner,
| DigitalSigner | | public interface DigitalSigner (Code) | | Responsible for signing a message. A reference is provided to the Signature to allow for population
of the singnature from message data. When this population of data is complete, the sign() method
will sign the message according to the implementation.
Note that the interface itself does not provide any means of retrieving the message being signed. It
is up to the implementing classes to determine what consititutes "signing" of a message.
author:
Kuali Rice Team (kuali-rice@googlegroups.com) |
| Method Summary | |
| public Signature | getSignature()
Retrieve a reference to Signature which will be used for signing. | | public void | sign()
Sign the message using the Signature. |
| getSignature | | public Signature getSignature()(Code) | | Retrieve a reference to Signature which will be used for signing.
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| sign | | public void sign() throws Exception(Code) | | Sign the message using the Signature. This method will not be called until all of the message data
has been populated into the Signature. After signing implementations may, for example, place the digital
signature in a header or perform whatever steps are required to successfully sign the message.
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