Java Security, 2nd Edition

Appendix F. Quick Reference

This appendix contains a quick-reference guide to the classes that we have discussed in this book. The primary focus is on classes in the core java.security package, as well as the packages that come with the three security extensions: javax.crypto, javax.net, javax.security, and com.net.sun.ssl. Accordingly, the classes listed in this appendix are organized by their primary package. Of course, there are a number of security-related classes -- such as the various permission classes -- that do not belong to one of these packages; these are listed in Section F.19 at the end of this appendix. Information in this appendix is based only on Java 2, version 1.3.

A note about class names: class names appear unqualified (without their package names). The exception to this is the various Certificate classes and interfaces. When Certificate appears without a package name, it refers to the java.security.cert.Certificate class. Otherwise, it will be fully-qualified (e.g., javax.security.cert.Certificate). The same is true of X509Certificate.

The Policy class, if unqualified, refers to the java.security.Policy class.