2362N/A * Copyright (c) 1997, 1998, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 0N/A * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER. 0N/A * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it 0N/A * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only, as 2362N/A * published by the Free Software Foundation. Oracle designates this 0N/A * particular file as subject to the "Classpath" exception as provided 2362N/A * by Oracle in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code. 0N/A * This code is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT 0N/A * ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or 0N/A * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License 0N/A * version 2 for more details (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that 0N/A * accompanied this code). 0N/A * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License version 0N/A * 2 along with this work; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, 0N/A * Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA. 2362N/A * Please contact Oracle, 500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, CA 94065 USA 2362N/A * or visit www.oracle.com if you need additional information or have any 0N/A * <p> This interface represents a guard, which is an object that is used 0N/A * to protect access to another object. 0N/A * <p>This interface contains a single method, <code>checkGuard</code>, 0N/A * with a single <code>object</code> argument. <code>checkGuard</code> is 0N/A * invoked (by the GuardedObject <code>getObject</code> method) 0N/A * to determine whether or not to allow access to the object. 0N/A * @see GuardedObject 0N/A * @author Roland Schemers 0N/A * Determines whether or not to allow access to the guarded object 0N/A * <code>object</code>. Returns silently if access is allowed. 0N/A * Otherwise, throws a SecurityException. 0N/A * @param object the object being protected by the guard. 0N/A * @exception SecurityException if access is denied.