MercuryPermission.java

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package com.sun.jini.mercury;

import net.jini.security.AccessPermission;

/**
 * Represents permissions that can be used to express the access control policy
 * for the Mercury server exported with a 
 * {@link net.jini.jeri.BasicJeriExporter}. This class
 * can be passed to {@link net.jini.jeri.BasicInvocationDispatcher}, 
 * and then used in
 * security policy permission grants. <p>
 *
 * An instance contains a name (also referred to as a "target name") but no
 * actions list; you either have the named permission or you don't. The
 * convention is that the target name is the non-qualified name of the remote
 * method being invoked. Wildcard matches are supported using the syntax
 * specified by {@link AccessPermission}. <p>
 *
 * The possible target names for use with a Mercury server are specified in the
 * package documentation for {@link com.sun.jini.mercury}.
 *
 * @author Sun Microsystems, Inc.
 * @since 2.0
 */
public class MercuryPermission extends AccessPermission {

    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

    /**
     * Creates an instance with the specified target name.
     *
     * @param name the target name
     * @throws NullPointerException if the target name is <code>null</code>
     * @throws IllegalArgumentException if the target name does not match
     * the syntax specified in the comments at the beginning of the {@link
     * AccessPermission} class
     */
    public MercuryPermission(String name) {
       super(name);
    }
}