SaslServer

public interface SaslServer

Performs SASL authentication as a server.

A server such an LDAP server gets an instance of this class in order to perform authentication defined by a specific SASL mechanism. Invoking methods on the SaslServer instance generates challenges according to the SASL mechanism implemented by the SaslServer. As the authentication proceeds, the instance encapsulates the state of a SASL server's authentication exchange.

Here's an example of how an LDAP server might use a SaslServer. It first gets an instance of a SaslServer for the SASL mechanism requested by the client:

SaslServer ss = Sasl.createSaslServer(mechanism,
    "ldap", myFQDN, props, callbackHandler);

It can then proceed to use the server for authentication. For example, suppose the LDAP server received an LDA