1   /*
2    *  Session.java
3    *
4    *  Copyright (c) 1998-2001, 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 1.5 2001/10/03 14:25:32 marin Exp $
14   */
15  
16  package gate.security;
17  
18  import gate.persist.PersistenceException;
19  
20  public interface Session {
21  
22    /** returns the session ID */
23    public Long getID();
24  
25    /** returns the user associated with the session */
26    public User getUser();
27  
28    /** returns the group associated with the session */
29    public Group getGroup();
30  
31    /** TRUE if user associated with the session is in the
32     *  ADMINS user group, otherwise FALSE */
33    public boolean isPrivilegedSession();
34  
35  
36  }
37