1 /*
2 * Copyright 2005-2008 The Kuali Foundation
3 *
4 *
5 * Licensed under the Educational Community License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
6 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
7 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
8 *
9 * http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ecl2.php
10 *
11 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
12 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
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16 */
17 package org.kuali.rice.kew.web.session;
18
19 /**
20 * Represents a user's Authentication. An Authentication reprents the granted
21 * authority of the user within the Workflow system or the enterprise. The
22 * authority is identified by a String value which should be unique for the
23 * particular type of authentication.
24 *
25 * TODO This is a first cut at this interface, perhaps we should look at
26 * something like Acegi security for handling some of this authentication
27 * stuff?
28 *
29 * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)
30 */
31 public interface Authentication extends java.io.Serializable {
32
33 public String getAuthority();
34
35 }