The Access Service provides a framework for using the identities created
with the Membership Service to control whether specific operations are
permitted.
The Access Service, like the Membership Service, is not associated with
a particular JXTA protocol. Each Access Service implementation is responsible
for its own protocol definition (if any). This approach is used primarily
so that JXTA bridges well to existing common Membership and Access
technologies. For example; PKI, Kerberos, NTLM and API based interfaces such
as PAM and JAAS.
@see net.jxta.credential.Credential
@see net.jxta.membership.MembershipService
@see JXTA Protocols Specification : Protocols