agilermi.authentication

Interface RMIAuthenticator

All Known Implementing Classes:

StandardRMIAuthenticator

public interface RMIAuthenticator

Provide an interface that allows to define implementations or adapters for authentication and authorization systems for objects access control

Author:

Salvatore Giampa'

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
boolean	authenticate(java.net.InetSocketAddress remoteAddress, java.lang.String authId, java.lang.String passphrase) Authenticate a user that established the connection from the given address.
boolean	authorize(java.lang.String authId, java.lang.Object object, java.lang.reflect.Method method) Authorize a user to invoke a specific method on a specific object.

Method Detail

authenticate

boolean authenticate(java.net.InetSocketAddress remoteAddress,
                     java.lang.String authId,
                     java.lang.String passphrase)

Authenticate a user that established the connection from the given address. This method allows or disallows the RMIRegistry to accept the incoming connection

Parameters:

remoteAddress - the address of the remote machine

authId - the authentication identifier of the user

passphrase - the passphrase to use for authentication

Returns:

true if the user has been authenticated successfully, false otherwise.

authorize

boolean authorize(java.lang.String authId,
                  java.lang.Object object,
                  java.lang.reflect.Method method)

Authorize a user to invoke a specific method on a specific object. This method allows to establish fine-grained authorization.

Parameters:

authId - the user authentication identifier, the same that ha been used to authenticate the user in the authenticate(InetSocketAddress, String, String) method

object - the object to which the user requires the access

method - the method that the user wants invoke

Returns:

true if the user is authorized, false otherwise