Common Classes

The following classes are used by both the Authentication API and the Authorization API. The services that these classes provide include:

Sending logging, tracing, and error messages to the Policy Server
Providing a mechanism for custom authentication and authorization objects to share information
Making user context information available to authentication and authorization objects

The following table summarizes the common classes:

Class	Description
APIContext	Allows logging, tracing, and error messages to be sent to the Policy Server.
AppSpecificContext	Provides methods that allow custom authentication and authorization objects to share information.
SmJavaApiException	Provides exception functionality to custom authentication and authorization objects.
UserContext	Allows a custom object to set and retrieve information about a user in a user directory. The information includes user attributes and directory attributes associated with the user. The methods for setting and retrieving user directory attributes are available only if isUserContext() returns true.