Determines that Credentials are valid. Password-based credentials may be tested against an external LDAP, Kerberos, JDBC source. Certificates may be checked against a list of CA's and do the usual chain validation. Implementations must be parameterized with their sources of information.
Callers to this class should first call supports to determine if the AuthenticationHandler can authenticate the credentials provided. @author Scott Battaglia @version $Revision: 14064 $ $Date: 2007-06-10 09:17:55 -0400 (Sun, 10 Jun 2007) $ @since 3.0
This is a published and supported CAS Server 3 API.
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