Interface Name

Description

SecurityContext

This interface is the root context for security on the SAP J2EE Engine.

AuthenticationContext

This interface provides the context of the SAP J2EE Engine, or a deployed instance of a component that provides access to the configuration of login modules and user store target.

The user management is performed using the setAuthenticationUserStore(UserStore) method that sets the user store configuration. The method changes the target user store for a specified component, or the active user store for the whole SAP J2EE Engine.

For more information about the authentication, see Authentication for Web Applications Users on the SAP J2EE Engine.

AuthorizationContext

This interface provides the context of J2EE Engine, or a deployed instance of a component that enables access to controls over security sensitive resources.

CryptographyContext

This interface provides the context of the SAP J2EE Engine, or a deployed instance of a component. The interface provides access to the cryptography modules configured for it.

ModificationContext

This interface provides the context used to bundle modification operations over a security context.

ProtectionDomainContext

This interface provides the context that provides the functionality targeted at protection domains.

For more information about the protection domains concept, see Protection Domains.

ResourceContext

This interface provides the context targeted at managing resources defined in the server.

SecurityContextObject

This interface provides the security context attached to the thread that has identifier security. It can be accessed as the ContextObject in the ThreadContext object as “ security ”.

SecurityModificationContextObject

This interface provides the context attached to the thread with identifier " security_modification". It is accessible as ContextObject in the ThreadContext object under " security_modification".

SecurityRole

This interface provides for the management of the security roles on the SAP J2EE Engine. When you refer to this interface and want to manage a specified security role, the interface returns an instance of the next interface SecurityRoleContext, which enables you to perform the management of the specified security role.

For more information about the security roles concept, see J2EE Engine Security Roles.

SecurityRoleContext

The interface provides the context for the management of security roles.

SecuritySession

This interface provides information about the security session. The session contains information about the caller user and information about the environment where the user authentication is valid.

The security sessions on the SAP J2EE Engine can be accessed in different ways. For more information about how to do this, see Obtaining the Current Security Session ID.

SessionListener

This interface allows for the development of listeners to react on events when a security session is closed.

RemoteSecurity

This interface enables you to perform remote lookup of the Security Provider Service interfaces.