Class loading error when looking up security providers

[Paul Sandoz]

On Jun 13, 2012, at 5:10 PM, Sean Mullan wrote:

> 
> 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.
> 

Hmm... you might be able to muck around with the platform library and copy the classes from the jdk.crypto location into the jdk.base location then refresh the library.

Paul.