Uses of Package
javax.security.auth.callback

Packages that use javax.security.auth.callback

Package	Description
java.security	Provides the classes and interfaces for the security framework.
javax.security.auth.callback	This package provides the classes necessary for services to interact with applications in order to retrieve information (authentication data including usernames or passwords, for example) or to display information (error and warning messages, for example).
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.sasl	Contains class and interfaces for supporting SASL.

Classes in javax.security.auth.callback used by java.security

Class and Description
CallbackHandler An application implements a CallbackHandler and passes it to underlying security services so that they may interact with the application to retrieve specific authentication data, such as usernames and passwords, or to display certain information, such as error and warning messages.

Classes in javax.security.auth.callback used by javax.security.auth.callback

Class and Description
Callback Implementations of this interface are passed to a CallbackHandler, allowing underlying security services the ability to interact with a calling application to retrieve specific authentication data such as usernames and passwords, or to display certain information, such as error and warning messages.
UnsupportedCallbackException Signals that a CallbackHandler does not recognize a particular Callback.

Classes in javax.security.auth.callback used by javax.security.auth.login

Class and Description
CallbackHandler An application implements a CallbackHandler and passes it to underlying security services so that they may interact with the application to retrieve specific authentication data, such as usernames and passwords, or to display certain information, such as error and warning messages.

Classes in javax.security.auth.callback used by javax.security.auth.spi

Class and Description
CallbackHandler An application implements a CallbackHandler and passes it to underlying security services so that they may interact with the application to retrieve specific authentication data, such as usernames and passwords, or to display certain information, such as error and warning messages.

Classes in javax.security.auth.callback used by javax.security.sasl

Class and Description
Callback Implementations of this interface are passed to a CallbackHandler, allowing underlying security services the ability to interact with a calling application to retrieve specific authentication data such as usernames and passwords, or to display certain information, such as error and warning messages.
CallbackHandler An application implements a CallbackHandler and passes it to underlying security services so that they may interact with the application to retrieve specific authentication data, such as usernames and passwords, or to display certain information, such as error and warning messages.
ChoiceCallback Underlying security services instantiate and pass a ChoiceCallback to the handle method of a CallbackHandler to display a list of choices and to retrieve the selected choice(s).
TextInputCallback Underlying security services instantiate and pass a TextInputCallback to the handle method of a CallbackHandler to retrieve generic text information.