[higgins-dev] Changes to IdAS Authentication Materials

[Markus Sabadello <msabadello@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

As described in more detail at http://wiki.eclipse.org/Authentication_Materials, the proposed concrete changes are now:
- Introduce a marker interface IAuthnMaterials, which all Authentication Materials classes implement

- Define string constants for the common kinds of Authentication Materials that we have
- Reduce Authentication Materials classes to simple Java Beans (i.e. remove business logic, and reference to IContext in constructor)

As a reminder, the goals of these changes are
1. To have identifiers for Authentication Material types, in order to be able to discover this information via UDI Resolution
2. To be able to easily (de)serialize Authentication Materials

Unless I get further feedback on this, I will perform the changes by next week.

Markus