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How SiteMinder Loads a Custom Authentication Scheme

An authentication scheme verifies the user credentials that SiteMinder passes to it and returns an authentication result.

When user authentication is to occur against a custom authentication scheme created with the Java API, SiteMinder loads the custom scheme by loading:

• The standard library file smjavaapi that is installed with the Policy Server
• An instance of the custom class implemented from SmAuthScheme