org.jboss.security
Class SecurityContextAssociation

java.lang.Object
  org.jboss.security.SecurityContextAssociation

public class SecurityContextAssociation
extends Object

Security Context association in a threadlocal

Since:

Dec 27, 2006

Version:

$Revision$

Author:

Anil Saldhana

Field Summary

static String

SECURITYCONTEXT_THREADLOCAL Flag to indicate whether threads that are spawned inherit the security context from parent Set this to false if you do not want inheritance.

Constructor Summary

SecurityContextAssociation()

Method Summary

static void	clearSecurityContext() Clear the current security context
static SecurityContext	getSecurityContext() Get a security context
static boolean	isClient() Indicates whether we are on the client side
static void	setClient() Set the VM-wide client side usage
static void	setSecurityContext(SecurityContext sc) Set a security context

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

SECURITYCONTEXT_THREADLOCAL

public static final String SECURITYCONTEXT_THREADLOCAL

Flag to indicate whether threads that are spawned inherit the security context from parent Set this to false if you do not want inheritance. By default the context is inherited.

See Also:

Constant Field Values

Constructor Detail

SecurityContextAssociation

public SecurityContextAssociation()

Method Detail

isClient

public static boolean isClient()

Indicates whether we are on the client side

Returns:

setClient

public static void setClient()

Set the VM-wide client side usage

setSecurityContext

public static void setSecurityContext(SecurityContext sc)

Set a security context

Parameters:

sc -

getSecurityContext

public static SecurityContext getSecurityContext()

Get a security context

Returns:

clearSecurityContext

public static void clearSecurityContext()

Clear the current security context