Package org.apache.shiro

package org.apache.shiro

This package primarily exists as a root classpath distinction, but it does contain two core classes widely used by applications, SecurityUtils and ShiroException.

Related Packages

Package	Description
org.apache.shiro.aop	Components used to support the framework's AOP/interception support classes.
org.apache.shiro.authc	Core interfaces and exceptions concerning Authentication (the act of logging-in).
org.apache.shiro.authz	Core interfaces and exceptions supporting Authorization (access control).
org.apache.shiro.concurrent	Executor, ExecutorService, and ScheduledExecutorService implementations for transparent Subject association with threads in an asynchronous execution environment.
org.apache.shiro.dao	Package containing various components useful when building Data Access Objects (DAOs), including a generic Data Access Exception hierarchy.
org.apache.shiro.env	Concepts used to represent Shiro's aggregate state in an application.
org.apache.shiro.ini	Concepts used to represent Shiro's aggregate state in an application.
org.apache.shiro.jndi	Enables accessing objects located in JNDI that might be useful when configuring a Shiro-enabled application.
org.apache.shiro.ldap	Support for accessing LDAP data sources.
org.apache.shiro.mgt	Provides the master SecurityManager interface and a default implementation hierarchy for managing all aspects of Shiro's functionality in an application.
org.apache.shiro.realm	Components and sub-packages used in supporting the core Realm interface.
org.apache.shiro.session	Components related to managing sessions, the time-based data contexts in which a Subject interacts with an application.
org.apache.shiro.subject	Components supporting the Subject interface, the most important concept in Shiro's API.
org.apache.shiro.util	Your run-of-the-mill 'util' package for components and logic widely used across the framework that can't find their home into a proper OO hierarchy (or, most likely for things used across many hierarchies).

Class	Description
SecurityUtils	Accesses the currently accessible Subject for the calling code depending on runtime environment.
UnavailableSecurityManagerException	Exception thrown when attempting to acquire the application's SecurityManager instance, but Shiro's lookup heuristics cannot find one.