com.uwyn.rife.authentication.credentialsmanagers
Interface CredentialsManagerFactory

All Known Implementing Classes:

DatabaseUsersFactory, MemoryUsersFactory

public interface CredentialsManagerFactory

Classes that can create CredentialsManager objects implement this interface.

Since:

1.6

Version:

$Revision: $

Author:

Steven Grimm (koreth[remove] at midwinter dot com), Geert Bevin (gbevin[remove] at uwyn dot com)

Method Summary

CredentialsManager

getCredentialsManager(HierarchicalProperties properties) Returns the manager specified by properties.

Method Detail

getCredentialsManager

CredentialsManager getCredentialsManager(HierarchicalProperties properties)
                                         throws PropertyValueException

Returns the manager specified by properties.

The specific properties that are used are determined by the implementation class.

Parameters:

properties - the properties that will setup the manager

Throws:

PropertyValueException - when an error occurred during the retrieval of the property values

Since:

1.6