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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package javax.servlet.annotation;
+
+import java.lang.annotation.Documented;
+import java.lang.annotation.ElementType;
+import java.lang.annotation.Inherited;
+import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
+import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy;
+import java.lang.annotation.Target;
+
+/**
+ * Declare this annotation on a {@link javax.servlet.Servlet} implementation
+ * class to enforce security constraints on HTTP protocol requests.<br />
+ * The container applies constraints to the URL patterns mapped to each Servlet
+ * which declares this annotation.<br />
+ * <br />
+ *
+ * @since Servlet 3.0
+ */
+@Inherited
+@Target({ElementType.TYPE})
+@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
+@Documented
+public @interface ServletSecurity {
+
+ /**
+ * Represents the two possible values of the empty role semantic, active
+ * when a list of role names is empty.
+ */
+ enum EmptyRoleSemantic {
+
+ /**
+ * Access MUST be permitted, regardless of authentication state or
+ * identity
+ */
+ PERMIT,
+
+ /**
+ * Access MUST be denied, regardless of authentication state or identity
+ */
+ DENY
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Represents the two possible values of data transport, encrypted or not.
+ */
+ enum TransportGuarantee {
+
+ /**
+ * User data must not be encrypted by the container during transport
+ */
+ NONE,
+
+ /**
+ * The container MUST encrypt user data during transport
+ */
+ CONFIDENTIAL
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * The default constraint to apply to requests not handled by specific
+ * method constraints
+ *
+ * @return http constraint
+ */
+ HttpConstraint value() default @HttpConstraint;
+
+ /**
+ * An array of HttpMethodContraint objects to which the security constraint
+ * will be applied
+ *
+ * @return array of http method constraint
+ */
+ HttpMethodConstraint[] httpMethodConstraints() default {};
+}