Message-Id: <199709031947.MAA21575@vishwas.eng.sun.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 1997 12:47:55 -0700 (PDT)
From: Mayank Upadhyay <Mayank.Upadhyay@Eng>
Subject: Use of Providers
To: java-security@java0.javasoft.com
I am working on a Java GSS-API (Generic Security Services API) at SunSoft
for the WebNFS client and am interested in using the provider model of your
JCA.
My understanding is that a Provider basically provides the names of the
classes that implement the abstract engine classes. A factory method in an
engine class would use such a class name to return an instance of the
implementation. However, I dont see any methods in the Provider class that
would allow this information (class name) to be queried from it by another
class.
What am I missing here? Any help will be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Mayank