> On Jun 12, 2016, at 11:33 AM, Alan Bateman <alan.bate...@oracle.com> wrote: > > > > On 12/06/2016 13:44, Wang Weijun wrote: >> I was about to send out a new webrev (CCC just approved) but noticed a >> behavior change. >> >> Although "-addprovider SUN" is useless it still worked when I posted >> webrev.03, but now it failed, because ServiceLoader.load(Provider.class) >> does not contain "SUN" anymore. Maybe it is inside java.base and loaded in a >> shortcut mode? >> > "SUN" ,"SunJCE", "SunRsaSign", and "SunJSSE" are built-in, I think Valerie > has code in sun.security.jca.ProviderConfig for this. I don't recall > java.base ever declaring that it `provides` these providers, except maybe via > a META-INF/services configuration file for a short period from the original > JCE work and the dropping the service configuration files.
I think Alan is right. They were not loaded via ServiceLoader.load because of the build complexity to get multiple service config files before the module system went in jdk9. As it stands now, no provides java.security.Provider in java.base after JDK-8157489 is resolved. Mandy
