Code Review for 6998860

[Sean Mullan]

On 12/7/10 8:20 PM, Mandy Chung wrote:
> Hi Sean,
>
> On 12/7/10 12:47 PM, Sean Mullan wrote:
>> Hi Mandy,
>>
>> Could I get a code review for 6998860:
>>
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mullan/6998860/webrev.00/
>>
> Is Providers.getSunProvider() specified to create a new instance of the provider
> every time it's called? I would assume that the runtime should create only one
> single instance of the Sun provider.

Yes, makes sense but that is how it is currently implemented.

> In the comment of the sun.security.jca.Providers.getSunProvider() method, this
> method is called in two places.
>
> // Return to Sun provider or its backup.
> // This method should only be called by
> // sun.security.util.ManifestEntryVerifier and java.security.SecureRandom.
> public static Provider getSunProvider() {
>
> Is it correct to change this method to cache and return a singleton object?

That seems plausible but I'm a bit hesitant to change that if there isn't a 
problem.

--Sean