# Package com.sas.lsaf.security.group

Service and classes for creating and manipulating groups in the system.

- Interface Summary
  Interface | Description
  --- | ---
  GroupService | The service that provides methods to manage the lifecycle of a group within the SAS Life Science Analytics Framework.

- Class Summary
  Class | Description
  --- | ---
  Group | Group is a collection of principals (users or other groups) that are uniquely identified by a name and context.
  GroupDescriptor | A lightweight representation of a group.

- Exception Summary
  Exception | Description
  --- | ---
  GroupContextNotFoundException | Thrown when the group context is not found.
  GroupException | The root of the hierarchy of all group checked exceptions within the SAS Life Science Analytics Framework Java API.
  GroupExistsException | Thrown when an attempt is made to create a group that exists with the same name in the same context.
  GroupNotFoundException | Thrown when the specified group is not found.
  InvalidGroupMemberException | Thrown when a group is updated with new members that violate membership contracts.