This interface encapsulates the configuration of ClientAuthContext objects for a message layer and application context (e.g., the messaging context of a specific application, or set of applications).
Implementations of this interface are returned by an AuthConfigProvider.
Callers interact with a ClientAuthConfig to obtain ClientAuthContext objects suitable for processing a given message exchange at the layer and within the application context of the ClientAuthConfig. Each ClientAuthContext object is responsible for instantiating, initializing, and invoking the one or more ClientAuthModules encapsulated in the ClientAuthContext.
After having acquired a ClientAuthContext, a caller operates on the context to cause it to invoke the encapsulated ClientAuthModules to secure client requests and to validate server responses.
@author
Anil Saldhana
@author Charlie Lai, Ron Monzillo (Javadoc for JSR-196)
@since May 12, 2006
@version $Revision: 64016 $