GSSCredential

[Mark Rotteveel]

On 2019-06-12 15:37, David Lloyd wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 8:01 AM Mark Rotteveel <mark at lawinegevaar.nl> 
> wrote:
>> Declaring it as `requires static` brings us full circle again. It will
>> work for simple usages, but it will break for any implementation out
>> there that proxies instances of ConnectionBuilder.
>> 
>> We might be able to accept this risk. I have never seen use of
>> ConnectionBuilder in the wild, and I actually haven't implemented it
>> myself in Jaybird yet (nor have I seen it implemented in other open
>> source drivers yet). We should be prepared to change this to 
>> `requires`
>> instead if it proves to be problematic though.
> 
> What about using the general-purpose authentication callback mechanism
> used by JAAS and SASL instead of providing credentials?  That could
> decouple JDBC from any particular authentication strategy altogether.

I don't have experience with either of those, so, what would the API for 
that look like, and how would it work implementationwise?

Mark