JCA Provider Service

[Will Sargent]

That's really fascinating, I had no idea.

Looks like it's documented in Step 4: Create a Module Declaration for Your
Provider
<https://docs.oracle.com/javase/9/security/howtoimplaprovider.htm#JSSEC-GUID-83742677-6E39-4A8D-BF0F-BC743E3AE43C>
with
follow up in Step 8.1: Configure the Provider
<https://docs.oracle.com/javase/9/security/howtoimplaprovider.htm#GUID-831AA25F-F702-442D-A2E4-8DA6DEA16F33>
 and Step 10: Run Your Test Programs
<https://docs.oracle.com/javase/9/security/howtoimplaprovider.htm#JSSEC-GUID-3FD26072-6982-4DCE-932C-DE152C463992>
.

On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 8:01 AM Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com> wrote:

> On 07/01/2019 15:52, Will Sargent wrote:
> > I didn't know that a service provider mechanism was added in Java 9.
> > The ServiceLoader pattern I'm using has been around since JDK 1.7 if
> > that's what you mean:
> >
> >
> https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/javase/extensible-137159.html
> >
> > I don't use Java 9, nor do I know any companies or individuals who use
> it.
> >
> Since JDK 9, you can deploy JCE providers on the class path or module
> path as service providers. This means JCE is using ServiceLoader to
> locate and load them. You may find this useful for what you are doing,
> once you get to a newer release.
>
> -Alan
>
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