A header file is a text file that contains pieces of code written in the C programming language. The name of a header file, by convention, ends with the .h extension. It is inserted inside a program by coding the #include preprocessor directive. The OpenSSO Enterprise C header files are:
General utility routines provided by the OpenSSO Enterprise library.
Data types and functions for developing custom authentication modules.
Data types and functions for logging on the local system or the OpenSSO Enterprise host.
Data types and functions for creating, destroying, and manipulating the map objects used by OpenSSO Enterprise.
Data types and functions for implementing notifications.
Data types and functions for using OpenSSO Enterprise policy objects.
Data types and functions for property maps used by clients of the OpenSSO Enterprise client API.
Data types and functions for implementing SSO.
Data types and functions for manipulating strings.
Common types and macros provided by OpenSSO Enterprise.
Functions to encode/decode HTTP cookies.
Data types and functions intended for use by OpenSSO Enterprise web agents.