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Principal Management : Differences wrt Jackrabbit 2.x

Replacement for Jackrabbit Internals

As of Oak 1.0 the following interfaces and class that were internal to Jackrabbit have been made part of public API exposed by Oak:

Combining Principals from Different Sources

In contrast to Jackrabbit 2.x Oak only deals with a single PrincipalProvider. In order to combine principals from different sources a implementation that properly handles the different sources is required; the CompositePrincipalProvider is an example that combines multiple implementations.

See section Pluggability for an example.