/*
* JBoss, Home of Professional Open Source.
* Copyright 2008, Red Hat Middleware LLC, and individual contributors
* as indicated by the @author tags. See the copyright.txt file in the
* distribution for a full listing of individual contributors.
*
* This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
* under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as
* published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of
* the License, or (at your option) any later version.
*
* This software is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
* Lesser General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
* License along with this software; if not, write to the Free
* Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
* 02110-1301 USA, or see the FSF site: http://www.fsf.org.
*/
package org.picketlink.identity.federation.web.interfaces;
import javax.security.auth.login.LoginException;
/**
* Handle authentication
*
* @author Anil.Saldhana@redhat.com
* @since Aug 18, 2009
*/
public interface ILoginHandler {
/**
* Authenticate the user
*
* @param username username
* @param credential credential
* @return true - authenticated
* @throws LoginException
*/
public boolean authenticate(String username, Object credential) throws LoginException;
}