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Security
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- Delegation Service
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Data Mgt
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Introduction
The Delegation Service provides an interface that, given the endpoint reference to the credential resource, allows service developers to retrieve a delegated credential. While there is a remote interface to delegate and refresh a credential, no remote interface is provided for acquiring the delegated credential (that is, all access is through a shared Java state.)
In addition, the component provides a utility API that can be used for developing client side code to generate a credential, delegate it and refresh it.