# ProviderMBean (Abstract)

Overview | Related MBeans | Attributes | Operations

## Overview

The base MBean for all security providers.

It includes attributes common to all security providers. Every security provider must implement an MBean that extends this MBean.

If the security provider supports management methods, the management methods cannot be called until the validate method of realm in which the security provider is configured successfully returns. That is, the administrator must completely configure the realm before using the management methods (for example, adding a user).

Fully Qualified Interface Name | If you use the `getMBeanInfo` operation in MBeanTypeServiceMBean, supply the following value as this MBean's fully qualified interface name: `weblogic.management.security.ProviderMBean`
Factory Methods | No factory methods. Instances of this MBean are created automatically.
Subtypes | The following MBeans extend or implement this MBean type:
ApplicationVersionerMBean AuditorMBean AuthenticationProviderMBean AuthenticatorMBean IdentityAsserterMBean ServletAuthenticationFilterMBean AdjudicatorMBean AuthorizerMBean DeployableAuthorizerMBean DeployableRoleMapperMBean RoleMapperMBean CredentialMapperMBean DeployableCredentialMapperMBean CertPathBuilderMBean CertPathProviderMBean CertPathValidatorMBean KeyStoreMBean DefaultAuditorMBean ActiveDirectoryAuthenticatorMBean CustomDBMSAuthenticatorMBean DBMSAuthenticatorMBean DefaultAuthenticatorMBean DefaultIdentityAsserterMBean IPlanetAuthenticatorMBean LDAPAuthenticatorMBean LDAPX509IdentityAsserterMBean LoginExceptionPropagatorMBean NegotiateIdentityAsserterMBean NovellAuthenticatorMBean | OpenLDAPAuthenticatorMBean ReadOnlySQLAuthenticatorMBean SQLAuthenticatorMBean WindowsNTAuthenticatorMBean DefaultAdjudicatorMBean DefaultAuthorizerMBean DefaultRoleMapperMBean DefaultCredentialMapperMBean PKICredentialMapperMBean CertificateRegistryMBean DefaultKeyStoreMBean WebLogicCertPathProviderMBean RealmAdapterAdjudicatorMBean RealmAdapterAuditorMBean RealmAdapterAuthenticatorMBean RealmAdapterAuthorizerMBean SAMLAssertingPartyRegistryMBean SAMLPartnerRegistryMBean SAMLRelyingPartyRegistryMBean SAMLAuthenticatorMBean SAMLCredentialMapperMBean SAMLCredentialMapperV2MBean SAMLIdentityAsserterMBean SAMLIdentityAsserterV2MBean CertRegManagerMBean XACMLAuthorizerMBean XACMLRoleMapperMBean

## Related MBeans

This section describes attributes that provide access to other MBeans. For more information about the MBean hierarchy, refer to WebLogic Server MBean Data Model.

Realm |

### Realm

Returns the realm that contains this security provider. Returns null if this security provider is not contained by a realm.

Privileges | Read only
Type | RealmMBean
Relationship type: | Reference.

## Attributes

This section describes the following attributes:

Description Name | Version

### Description

Returns a description of this security provider.

Each security provider's MBean should set the default value of this read-only attribute to a string that describes the provider. In other words, each security provider's MBean hard-wires its description. There are no conventions governing the contents of the description. It should be a human readable string that gives a brief description of the security provider.

Privileges | Read only
Type | java.lang.String
Redeploy or Restart required | Changes take effect after you redeploy the module or restart the server.

### Name

The name of this configuration. WebLogic Server uses an MBean to implement and persist the configuration.

Privileges | Read only
Type | java.lang.String
Default Value | Provider
Redeploy or Restart required | Changes take effect after you redeploy the module or restart the server.

### Version

Returns this security provider's version.

Each security provider's MBean should set the default value of this read-only attribute to a string that specifies the version of the provider (e.g. 7.3.04). In other words, each security provider's MBean hard-wires its version. There are no conventions governing the contents of the version string.

Privileges | Read only
Type | java.lang.String
Redeploy or Restart required | Changes take effect after you redeploy the module or restart the server.

## Operations

This section describes the following operations:

wls_getDisplayName |

### wls_getDisplayName

Operation Name | `"wls_getDisplayName"`
Parameters | `null`
Signature | `null`
Returns | `String`