com.bea.wli.sb.security
Interface UsernamePassword

public interface UsernamePassword

This interface encapsulates a username/password pair. Instances of UsernamePassword are immutable.

Note: implementations of this interface are not required to be thread-safe. Clients of this interface are responsible to do synchronization if required by the usage pattern.

Method Summary

char[]	getPassword() Note: to maintain the immutability of UsernamePassword, a new copy of the password character array is returned.
String	getUsername()

Method Detail

getUsername

String getUsername()

Returns:

the username

Throws:

IllegalStateException - if this UsernamePassword has already been disposed.

getPassword

char[] getPassword()

Note: to maintain the immutability of UsernamePassword, a new copy of the password character array is returned.

Returns:

the password

Throws:

IllegalStateException - if this UsernamePassword has already been disposed.