/*
 * Copyright 2002 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
 * SUN PROPRIETARY/CONFIDENTIAL. Use is subject to license terms.
 */

package javax.resource.spi;

import javax.resource.ResourceException;

/** A SecurityException indicates error conditions related to the security
 *  contract between an application server and resource adapter. The common
 *  error conditions represented by this exception are:
 *  <UL>
 *  <LI>invalid security information (represented as a Subject instance) passed
 *      across the security contract - for example, credentials have expired or
 *      have invalid format
 *  <LI>lack of support for a specific security mechanism in an EIS or resource 
 *      adapter
 *  <LI>failure to create a connection to an EIS because of failed authentication or
 *      authorization
 *  <LI>failure to authenticate a resource principal to an EIS instance or failure 
 *      to establish a secure association with an underlying EIS instance
 *  <LI>access control exception to indicate that a requested access to an EIS 
 *      resource or a request to create a new connection is denied
 *  </UL>
 * @version     0.7
 * @author      Rahul Sharma
 */

public class SecurityException extends javax.resource.ResourceException {

  /**
   *  Create a SecurityException.
   *
   *  @param  reason        a description of the exception
   *  @param  errorCode     a string specifying the vendor specific
   *                        error code
  **/
  public 
  SecurityException(String reason, String errorCode) {
    super(reason, errorCode);
  }    
    
  /**
   *  Create a SecurityException with reason.
   *
   *  @param  reason        a description of the exception
   **/
  public 
  SecurityException(String reason) {
    super(reason);
  }
}