Plug-ins Layer
The Access Manager SPIs work with plug-ins to provide customer data to the framework for back-end processing. Some customer data comes from external data base applications such as identity repositories. Some customer data come from Access Manager plug-ins. You can develop custom plug-ins to work with Access Manager SPIs.
For a complete listing of Access Manager SPIs, see the Javadoc. The following table lists the plug-ins that are installed with Access Manager and a brief description what each plug-in does.
Table 1–3 Access Manager Plug-ins|
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Accesses user data in a specified identity repository to determine if user’s credentials are valid. |
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Aggregates policies and rules to determine whether a user is authorized to access a protected resource. |
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Manages configuration data used in each core component framework: authentication, authorization, SAML, session, logging, and identity federation. Provides configuration data to any Access Manager plug-in or component that needs the data. |
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Aggregates policies and rules to determine the scope of a network administrator’s authority. |
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Authenticates identities and returns identity information such as user attributes and membership status. |
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Creates and modifies users and stores information in the user branch of the identity repository. Implements user management APIs used in previous Access Manager releases. |
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