| An Authenticator is a component (usually a Valve or Container) that
provides some sort of authentication service. The interface itself has no
functional significance, but is used as a tagging mechanism so that other
components can detect the presence (via an "instanceof Authenticator" test)
of an already configured authentication service.
author:
Craig R. McClanahan
version:
$Revision: 1.3 $ $Date: 2001/07/22 20:13:30 $ |