Custom APIs

Access Manager provides the following custom APIs:.

• Package com.sun.identity.policy.jaas

  This package includes classes for performing policy evaluation against Access Manager using JAAS (Java Authentication and Authorization) framework.

• ISPermission

  This class provides the support for JAAS Authorization service. It is a new JAAS Permission which extends the Permission class and is defined to evaluate permission against the Access Manager policy framework.

• ISPolicy

  This is an implementation of abstract class javax.security.auth.Policy for representing the system security policy for a Java application environment. It performs policy evaluation against the Access manager policy service instead of against the default file-based PolicyFile.

For a comprehensive listing of related APIs, see the Javadoc in the following directory: AccessManager-base/SUNWam/docs.