karta.security.enterprise.credential">Credential</a>&nbsp;credential)</pre>
<div class="block">Validates the given credential.
 <p>
 As a convenience, a default implementation is provided that looks up an overload of this method
 that has, as its one and only parameter, a subclass of <a href="../credential/Credential.html" title="interface in jakarta.security.enterprise.credential"><code>Credential</code></a>. Here is an example of what
 an implementation of this interface looks like with such an overloaded