Interface Summary
Interface	Description
Authority	Interface for all authorities that may be granted to a user.
SecurityManager	Interface for authentication and creating of the directory manager.

Class Summary
Class	Description
Authentication	Represents an authenticated request, returned on successful call to `SecurityManager.authenticate(UserDetails)`.
AuthorityFactory	A factory for creating an `Authority` instance back from its String representation returned by `Authority.getAuthority()`
SecurityFactory	A factory for creating an `SecurityManager` and locating of security properties file by name.

Exception Summary
Exception	Description
AccessDeniedException	Thrown if an operation is performed without a required authority.
AuthenticationException	Thrown if an authentication is invalid.
SecurityException	Base class for all security related exceptions.

Package com.gigaspaces.security Description

Security

GigaSpaces security is used to secure numerous demanding environments at different levels of security. GigaSpaces provides a default security implementation with some handy extension points.

Custom Extensions

Encoding

The default GigaSpaces security implementation uses MD5 as the default algorithm to encrypt passwords (see PasswordEncoder), and AES as the default algorithm to encrypt contents stored in a file (see ContentEncoder).

File-Service

The default GigaSpaces security implementation stores the users and roles in a local file-system. The FileService interface defines the file access mechanism; The default implementation is the LocalFileService. It can be replaced by URLFileService to read the file contents from an HTTP Server.

Custom Security

The main security interface is SecurityManager which is responsible for authentication and creating of the DirectoryManager. These are the two interfaces of interest when implementing your own custom security.