Status</a></span>&nbsp;<span class="element-name">doNothing</span>()</div>
<div class="block">Instructs the container to "do nothing".
 
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 When intending to do nothing, a Jakarta Security authentication mechanism has to indicate this
 explicitly via its return value.
 
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 As a convenience this method returns NOT_DONE, so this method can be used in
 one fluent return statement from an <a href="HttpAuthenticationMechanism.html" title="interface in jakarta.security.enterprise.authentication.mechanism.ht