01: /*
02: * Copyright 2005-2006 The Kuali Foundation.
03: *
04: *
05: * Licensed under the Educational Community License, Version 1.0 (the "License");
06: * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
07: * You may obtain a copy of the License at
08: *
09: * http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ecl1.php
10: *
11: * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
12: * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
13: * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
14: * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
15: * limitations under the License.
16: */
17: package edu.iu.uis.eden.web.session;
18:
19: /**
20: * Represents a user's Authentication. An Authentication reprents the granted
21: * authority of the user within the Workflow system or the enterprise. The
22: * authority is identified by a String value which should be unique for the
23: * particular type of authentication.
24: *
25: * TODO This is a first cut at this interface, perhaps we should look at
26: * something like Acegi security for handling some of this authentication
27: * stuff?
28: *
29: * @author ewestfal
30: */
31: public interface Authentication extends java.io.Serializable {
32:
33: public String getAuthority();
34:
35: }
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