Introduction to IdentityStore and Authentication Mechanism

Overview

The official definition of the IdentityStore is as follows:

IdentityStore is a mechanism for validating a caller’s credentials and accessing a caller’s identity attributes. It can be used as an authentication mechanism.

The IdentityStore is responsible for determining whether user credentials are correct. We declared a custom class that implements the javax.security.enterprise.identitystore.IdentityStore interface as a CDI bean in the lesson " ...