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. On Sun, Jan 6, 2019 at 11:49 PM Alan Bateman <alan.bate...@oracle.com> wrote: > On 07/01/2019 03:46, Will Sargent wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I've put together a small project that will autoload custom JCA > > providers, bypassing the need to append to the > > java.security.properties file (which is not well documented), allowing > > for some programmatic access, and adding some logging. > > > Have you tried the service provider mechanism that was added in Java SE > 9 to support loading JCE providers as services? > > -Alan >