de.schlichtherle.license
Interface LicenseCreator

All Superinterfaces:

Remote

All Known Implementing Classes:

LicenseManager, LicenseManager

public interface LicenseCreator
extends Remote

Provides remote license creation services.

Author:

Christian Schlichtherle

create

byte[] create(LicenseContent content)
              throws Exception

Initializes and validates the license content, creates a new signed license certificate for it and compresses, encrypts and returns it as a license key.

As a side effect, the given license content may be initialized with some reasonable defaults unless the respective properties have already been set.

Parameters:

content - The license content - may not be null.

Returns:

The license key - null is never returned.

Throws:

Exception - An instance of a subclass of this class for various reasons. Note that you should always use Throwable.getLocalizedMessage() to get a (possibly localized) meaningful detail message.