/*
* Copyright (c) 2006-2011 Nuxeo SA (http://nuxeo.com/) and others.
*
* All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
* are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
* which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
* http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
*
* Contributors:
* Florent Guillaume
*/
package org.eclipse.ecr.opencmis.bindings;
import javax.security.auth.login.LoginContext;
import javax.security.auth.login.LoginException;
/**
* Interface defining a login method, used during SOAP authentication.
* <p>
* The provider can be redefined by a Nuxeo Framework property named with the
* full name of this interface.
*/
public interface LoginProvider {
/**
* Log in the user given the username and password, and returns a login
* context.
*
* @param username the username
* @param password the password
* @return the login context
* @throws LoginException if the user cannot be logged in
*/
LoginContext login(String username, String password) throws LoginException;
}