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Jakarta Security defines a standard for creating secure Jakarta EE applications in modern application paradigms. It defines an overarching (end-user targeted) Security API for Jakarta EE Applications.

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package javax.security.enterprise.authentication.mechanism.http;

import static java.lang.annotation.ElementType.TYPE;
import static java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME;

import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
import java.lang.annotation.Target;


/**
 * Annotation used to define a container authentication mechanism that implements
 * the HTTP basic access authentication protocol as defined by the Servlet spec (13.6.1)  
 * and make that implementation available as an enabled CDI bean.
 *
 */
@Retention(RUNTIME)
@Target(TYPE)
public @interface BasicAuthenticationMechanismDefinition {
    
    /**
     * Name of realm that will be sent via the WWW-Authenticate header.
     * 
     * Note that this realm name does not couple a named identity store
     * configuration to the authentication mechanism.
     * 
     * @return Name of realm
     */
    String realmName() default "";
}