GSSContext

This interface encapsulates the GSS-API security context and provides the security services that are available over the context. Security contexts are established between peers using locally acquired credentials. Multiple contexts may exist simultaneously between a pair of peers, using the same or different set of credentials. GSS-API functions in a manner independent of the underlying transport protocol and depends on its calling application to transport the tokens that are generated by the security context between the peers.

If the caller instantiates the context using the default GSSManager instance, then the Kerberos v5 GSS-API mechanism is guaranteed to be available for context establishment. This mechanism is identified by the Oid "1.2.840.113554.1.2.2" and is defined in RFC 1964.

Before the context establishment phase is initiated,