All Known Implementing Classes:

KerberosKey, KerberosTicket, KeyStore.PasswordProtection, X500PrivateCredential

public interface Destroyable

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Subject

• Method Summary

  Methods

  Modifier and Type	Method and Description
  void	destroy () Destroy this Object.
  boolean	isDestroyed () Determine if this Object has been destroyed.

• Method Detail

  • destroy

    void destroy()
     throws DestroyFailedException 

    Destroy this Object.

    Sensitive information associated with this Object is destroyed or cleared. Subsequent calls to certain methods on this Object will result in an IllegalStateException being thrown.

    Throws:

    DestroyFailedException - if the destroy operation fails.

    SecurityException - if the caller does not have permission to destroy this Object.

  • isDestroyed

    boolean isDestroyed()

    Determine if this Object has been destroyed.

    Returns:

    true if this Object has been destroyed, false otherwise.