ContextPermission.java

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package net.jini.io.context;

import net.jini.security.AccessPermission;

/**
 * Represents permissions used to express the access control policy for
 * elements commonly found in the context collections available from
 * {@link net.jini.export.ServerContext} and
 * {@link net.jini.io.ObjectStreamContext}.
 * <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 fully qualified name of the
 * (interface) method being invoked on the context element. Wildcard matches
 * are supported using the syntax specified by {@link AccessPermission}.
 *
 * @author Sun Microsystems, Inc.
 * @since 2.0
 */
public final class ContextPermission extends AccessPermission {
    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1396656176817498282L;

    /**
     * Creates an instance with the specified name.
     *
     * @param name the target name
     */
    public ContextPermission(String name) {
	super(name);
    }
}