[ecf-dev] Re: Storing/Retrieving user accounts/etc using Equinox secure

[Scott Lewis <slewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Oleg,

Oleg Besedin wrote:
> Great Scott, thank you for using the secure storage!
>
> A bit of a different perspective that I'd like to explore after 
> Eclipse 3.4 is an introduction of concepts such as "account", 
> "persona", and "role" at the Equinox level. For now we added 
> semi-abstract IPrivateCredential and IPublicCredential that are 
> supposed to be populated by login modules. 

Would access to these be via 
Subject.getPrivateCredentials()/getPublicCredentials?

> Such constructs might serve as a logical level abstraction on top of 
> the secure storage - similarly to the new classes you added.

Interesting.  Note that ECF's ID interface extends Principal...so also 
could be/should be set upon JAAS-based authentication....i.e. 
subject.getPrincipals().

Scott