1   /*
2    *  Session.java
3    *
4    *  Copyright (c) 1998-2005, The University of Sheffield.
5    *
6    *  This file is part of GATE (see http://gate.ac.uk/), and is free
7    *  software, licenced under the GNU Library General Public License,
8    *  Version 2, June 1991 (in the distribution as file licence.html,
9    *  and also available at http://gate.ac.uk/gate/licence.html).
10   *
11   *  Marin Dimitrov, 19/Sep/2001
12   *
13   *  $Id: Session.java,v 1.8 2005/01/11 13:51:36 ian Exp $
14   */
15  
16  package gate.security;
17  
18  
19  public interface Session {
20  
21    /** returns the session ID */
22    public Long getID();
23  
24    /** returns the user associated with the session */
25    public User getUser();
26  
27    /** returns the group associated with the session */
28    public Group getGroup();
29  
30    /** TRUE if user associated with the session is in the
31     *  ADMINS user group, otherwise FALSE */
32    public boolean isPrivilegedSession();
33  
34  
35  }
36