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.