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Posted to commits@jackrabbit.apache.org by ju...@apache.org on 2006/05/18 22:15:15 UTC
svn commit: r407627 -
/jackrabbit/trunk/jackrabbit/src/site/xdoc/doc/firststeps.xml
Author: jukka
Date: Thu May 18 13:15:14 2006
New Revision: 407627
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=407627&view=rev
Log:
First Hops: Improved JAAS references.
Modified:
jackrabbit/trunk/jackrabbit/src/site/xdoc/doc/firststeps.xml
Modified: jackrabbit/trunk/jackrabbit/src/site/xdoc/doc/firststeps.xml
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/jackrabbit/trunk/jackrabbit/src/site/xdoc/doc/firststeps.xml?rev=407627&r1=407626&r2=407627&view=diff
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--- jackrabbit/trunk/jackrabbit/src/site/xdoc/doc/firststeps.xml (original)
+++ jackrabbit/trunk/jackrabbit/src/site/xdoc/doc/firststeps.xml Thu May 18 13:15:14 2006
@@ -285,12 +285,11 @@
<a href="http://www.day.com/maven/jsr170/javadocs/jcr-1.0/javax/jcr/Repository.html#login()"
class="externalLink">Repository.login()</a> method starts
a repository session using the default workspace and no user
- credentials. Jackrabbit tries to use
- <a href="http://java.sun.com/products/jaas/"
- class="externalLink"
- title="Java Authentication and Authorization Service"
- >JAAS</a> authentication in such cases, but defaults to the
- anonymous user if a JAAS Subject is not found.
+ credentials. Jackrabbit tries to use the
+ <a href="http://java.sun.com/products/jaas/" class="externalLink"
+ >Java Authentication and Authorization Service</a> (JAAS)
+ configuration in such cases, but defaults to the anonymous user
+ if a JAAS Subject is not found.
</p>
<p>
Since we use the TransientRepository class as the Repository
@@ -473,9 +472,9 @@
<code>"password"</code>.
</p>
<p>
- Quriously enough, the SimpleCredentials constructor takes the
- username as a normal String, but the password as a character
- array, so we need to use the
+ The SimpleCredentials constructor follows the JAAS convention
+ of represenenting the username as a normal String, but the
+ password as a character array, so we need to use the
<a href="http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/lang/String.html#toCharArray()"
class="externalLink" title="java.lang.String.toCharArray()"
>String.toCharArray()</a> method to satisfy the constructor.