Re: Policy providers in Java 9

2015-05-12 Thread Peter Firmstone
A quick update on loading or policy providers with the application classloader on Java 8, until now we have only ever used the extension classloader. The only changes I had to make was to add the policy providers to the classpath, remove code that caused the JVM to exit if a policy provider w

Re: Policy providers in Java 9

2015-03-23 Thread Alan Bateman
On 22/03/2015 00:48, Mandy Chung wrote: : There are some SPIs that need adjustment to support loading the providers by the application class loader and the policy SPI should also be updated in JDK 9. Right, there are a few areas that need to be updated. In the case of java.security.Policy then

Re: Policy providers in Java 9

2015-03-21 Thread Peter Firmstone
Thanks Mandy, replies inline... - Original message - > > > On 3/21/2015 5:12 AM, Peter Firmstone wrote: > > Just wondering, with the removal of the extensions directory, what's > > the correct way of specifying a policy provider? > > > > We currently have a number of nested policy provi

Re: Policy providers in Java 9

2015-03-21 Thread Mandy Chung
On 3/21/2015 5:12 AM, Peter Firmstone wrote: Just wondering, with the removal of the extensions directory, what's the correct way of specifying a policy provider? We currently have a number of nested policy providers that are loaded by the extension classloader. Do you set the custom polic

Policy providers in Java 9

2015-03-21 Thread Peter Firmstone
Just wondering, with the removal of the extensions directory, what's the correct way of specifying a policy provider? We currently have a number of nested policy providers that are loaded by the extension classloader. Thanks, Peter.