Review Request: loading JCE providers using ServiceLoader

[Sean Mullan]

On 7/24/12 8:29 PM, Alan Bateman wrote:
> On 24/07/2012 18:29, Sean Mullan wrote:
>>
>> It's plausible we should automatically add all the Providers available
>> as services to the list of registered providers.
> I think this would make sense because they are otherwise not accessible
> if they aren't listed in the java.security file (and the approach to
> instantiate them directly will not work in module because
> sun.security.pkcs11 and the other sun.* packages are not exported).

Yes, though I'd like to hold off on this until we explore further adding 
the capability to ServiceLoader to order services; otherwise I don't 
know what order to put these services in. Once that is in place, then we 
don't really need to look at the java.security file at all.

Also, in general this isn't an issue right now since all of the 
providers we include in the JDK are configured by default in the 
java.security file, except for SunPKCS11 which is only configured by 
default on Solaris. But SunPKCS11 is a problem anyway because it 
requires a config file as input, so we still need to figure out a better 
way to address that so that it can be loaded as a service. We may still 
have to have some dependency on the java.security file.

--Sean