RFR 8130302: jarsigner and keytool -providerClass needs be re-examined for modules
Mandy Chung
mandy.chung at oracle.com
Thu Feb 18 14:55:51 UTC 2016
> On Feb 18, 2016, at 1:52 AM, Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com> wrote:
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> On 18/02/2016 09:08, Weijun Wang wrote:
>> OK, but with -providerClass I'd like to support a class name even if it is already defined in a module as a service and has its own name. This makes sure old commands still work.
> I think it should work fine but I assume we would want to discourage this. That is, these security providers are service provider and there should be no need for anyone to know the name of the implementation class.
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Exactly.
Note that the current ProviderConfig implementation doesn’t support security.provider.N=<classname> if this is loaded from the another named module. It should throw IAE.
Mandy
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