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## Uses of Package
javax.security.auth

Packages that use javax.security.auth
java.security | Provides the classes and interfaces for the security framework.
javax.management.remote | Interfaces for remote access to JMX MBean servers.
javax.management.remote.rmi | The RMI connector is a connector for the JMX Remote API that uses RMI to transmit client requests to a remote MBean server.
javax.security.auth | This package provides a framework for authentication and authorization.
javax.security.auth.kerberos | This package contains utility classes related to the Kerberos network authentication protocol.
javax.security.auth.login | This package provides a pluggable authentication framework.
javax.security.auth.spi | This package provides the interface to be used for implementing pluggable authentication modules.
javax.security.auth.x500 | This package contains the classes that should be used to store X500 Principal and X500 Private Crendentials in a Subject.

Classes in javax.security.auth used by java.security
Destroyable Objects such as credentials may optionally implement this interface to provide the capability to destroy its contents.
DestroyFailedException Signals that a `destroy` operation failed.
Subject A `Subject` represents a grouping of related information for a single entity, such as a person.

Classes in javax.security.auth used by javax.management.remote
Subject A `Subject` represents a grouping of related information for a single entity, such as a person.

Classes in javax.security.auth used by javax.management.remote.rmi
Subject A `Subject` represents a grouping of related information for a single entity, such as a person.

Classes in javax.security.auth used by javax.security.auth
DestroyFailedException Signals that a `destroy` operation failed.
Policy Deprecated. as of JDK version 1.4 -- Replaced by java.security.Policy. java.security.Policy has a method:
            public PermissionCollection getPermissions
                (java.security.ProtectionDomain pd)
and ProtectionDomain has a constructor:
            public ProtectionDomain
                (CodeSource cs,
                 PermissionCollection permissions,
                 ClassLoader loader,
                 Principal[] principals)
These two APIs provide callers the means to query the Policy for Principal-based Permission entries.
RefreshFailedException Signals that a `refresh` operation failed.
Subject A `Subject` represents a grouping of related information for a single entity, such as a person.

Classes in javax.security.auth used by javax.security.auth.kerberos
Destroyable Objects such as credentials may optionally implement this interface to provide the capability to destroy its contents.
DestroyFailedException Signals that a `destroy` operation failed.
Refreshable Objects such as credentials may optionally implement this interface to provide the capability to refresh itself.
RefreshFailedException Signals that a `refresh` operation failed.

Classes in javax.security.auth used by javax.security.auth.login
Subject A `Subject` represents a grouping of related information for a single entity, such as a person.

Classes in javax.security.auth used by javax.security.auth.spi
Subject A `Subject` represents a grouping of related information for a single entity, such as a person.

Classes in javax.security.auth used by javax.security.auth.x500
Destroyable Objects such as credentials may optionally implement this interface to provide the capability to destroy its contents.

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