Class loading error when looking up security providers

[Sean Mullan]

On 6/13/12 9:58 AM, Paul Sandoz wrote:
> Hi Sean,
> 
> Looking at the code the problem is the class "com.sun.crypto.provider.SunJCE" is in the jdk.crypto module and the code to load crypto providers does:
> 
>                     ClassLoader cl;
>                     if (Platform.isModuleMode()) {
>                         cl = Platform.getBaseModuleLoader();
>                     } else {
>                         cl = ClassLoader.getSystemClassLoader();
>                     }
>                     Class<?> provClass;
>                     if (cl != null) {
>                         provClass = cl.loadClass(className);
>                     } else {
>                         provClass = Class.forName(className);
>                     }
> 
> So it is using the CL of the jdk.base module, which cannot see classes from the jdk.crypto module.
> 
> As the comment in the source that occurs above the above snippet states, this area needs to start using services.

Ok, but I need a workaround for the time-being. If you think of anything, let me
know.

--Sean