[QPID-6655] Refactor slow authentication detection to use a Ticker

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: qpid-java-6.0
• Component/s: Broker-J
• Assignee: Robert Godfrey
• Reporter: Keith Wall
• Created: 26/Jul/15 18:31
• Updated: 02/Oct/19 19:21
• Resolved: 26/Jul/15 19:59

Description

Java Broker includes a guard against a peer that authenticates an AMQP connection unreasonably slowly. Such connections are closed as a potential denial of service attack.

The refactored IO system offers a simpler way to implement the same functionality as a Ticker, avoiding code duplication.