Code Review for 6998860

[Mandy Chung]

  On 12/8/10 6:19 AM, Sean Mullan wrote:
> 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.

I'm fine with the change.   I suggest to add a comment in the 
SunProviderHolder class and revisit this in jdk 8 / modularization.

Mandy