Server-related components

All of these components must be created as Java™ classes and put on the classpath of the Diffusion™ server .

Authenticators

These components handle authentication of clients that connect to the Diffusion server or change the principal that they use to connect to the Diffusion server . If the client connection is allowed, the authenticator assigns roles to the client session.

You can have zero, one, or many authenticators configured on your Diffusion server.

For more information, see Developing a local authenticator and .

Note: Local authenticators, on the Diffusion server , can be written only in Java . However, control authenticators that are part of a client whose API supports Authentication Control can be written in other languages.

Hooks

Startup and shutdown hooks are called by the Diffusion server . The startup hook is instantiated and called as the Diffusion server starts and before publishers are loaded. The shutdown hook is called as the Diffusion server stops.

For example, you can use a shutdown hook to persist some aspect of the state of the Diffusion server to disk.

HTTP service handlers

These components handle HTTP requests as part of an HTTP service in the Diffusion server's built-in web server. Provide a user-written HTTP service handler to enable the Diffusion web server to handle any kind of HTTP request.