001/* 002 * Copyright (c) 2006-2011 Nuxeo SA (http://nuxeo.com/) and others. 003 * 004 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials 005 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 006 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at 007 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html 008 * 009 * Contributors: 010 * Florent Guillaume 011 */ 012package org.nuxeo.ecm.core.opencmis.bindings; 013 014import javax.security.auth.login.LoginContext; 015import javax.security.auth.login.LoginException; 016 017/** 018 * Interface defining a login method, used during SOAP authentication. 019 * <p> 020 * The provider can be redefined by a Nuxeo Framework property named with the full name of this interface. 021 */ 022public interface LoginProvider { 023 024 /** 025 * Log in the user given the username and password, and returns a login context. 026 * 027 * @param username the username 028 * @param password the password 029 * @return the login context 030 * @throws LoginException if the user cannot be logged in 031 */ 032 LoginContext login(String username, String password) throws LoginException; 033 034}