doc/java-broker/src/docbkx/concepts/Java-Broker-Concepts-Other-Services.xml

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<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" version="5.0" xml:id="Java-Broker-Concepts-Other-Services">
<title>Other Services</title>
    <para>
        The Broker can also have <emphasis>Access Control Providers</emphasis>,
        <emphasis>Connection Limit Providers</emphasis>, <emphasis>Group Providers</emphasis>,
        <emphasis>Keystores</emphasis>, <emphasis>Trustores</emphasis> and [Management] <emphasis>Plugins</emphasis> configured.
    </para>

    <section xml:id="Java-Broker-Concepts-Access-Control-Providers">
        <title>Access Control Providers</title>
        <para><emphasis>Access Control Providers</emphasis> are used to authorize various operations relating to Broker objects.</para>
        <para>Access Control Provider configuration and management details are covered in <xref linkend="Java-Broker-Security-AccessControlProviders"/>.</para>
    </section>

    <section xml:id="Java-Broker-Concepts-Connection-Limit-Providers">
        <title>Connection Limit Providers</title>
        <para><emphasis>Connection Limit Providers</emphasis> are used to limit the amount of connections that
            user could open on AMQP ports.</para>
        <para>Connection Limit Providers configuration and management details are covered in
            <xref linkend="Java-Broker-Security-ConnectionLimitProviders"/>.</para>
    </section>

    <section xml:id="Java-Broker-Concepts-Group-Providers">
        <title>Group Providers</title>
        <para><emphasis>Group Providers</emphasis> are used to aggregate authenticated user principals into groups
        which can be then be used in Access Control rules applicable to the whole group.</para>
        <para>Group Provider configuration and management is covered in <xref linkend="Java-Broker-Security-Group-Providers"/>.</para>
    </section>

    <section xml:id="Java-Broker-Concepts-Keystores">
        <title>Keystores</title>
        <para><emphasis>Keystores</emphasis> are used to configure SSL private and public keys and certificates
        for the SSL transports on Ports.</para>
        <para>Keystore configuration and management is covered in <xref linkend="Java-Broker-Management-Managing-Keystores"/>.</para>
    </section>

    <section xml:id="Java-Broker-Concepts-Truststores">
        <title>Truststores</title>
        <para><emphasis>Truststores</emphasis> are used to configure SSL certificates for trusting Client Certificate
            on SSL ports or making SSL connections to other external services like LDAP, etc.</para>
        <para>Truststore configuration and management is covered in <xref linkend="Java-Broker-Management-Managing-Truststores"/>.</para>
    </section>

    <section xml:id="Java-Broker-Concepts-Loggers">
        <title>Loggers</title>
        <para><emphasis>Loggers</emphasis> are responsible for producing a log of events from either the Broker as a whole, or
            an individual Virtualhost. These are described in <xref linkend="Java-Broker-Runtime-Logging"/>.</para>
    </section>

</section>