Miroslav Nachev wrote:
If anyone else would like to see JSR 106 in JDK 7, please send me an
email with a few more details as to why it would be helpful, and your
company/organization name (if applicable).
COSMOS Software Enterprises, Ltd.
Sofia, Bulgaria
It is not a problem to be used as external library, but is more useful
if is part of JDK.
Also I would like to tell you for some disadvantages in the existing
XML Digital Signature included in JDK6. There are too many
functionalities which exists in Apache XML Security and internal classes
in JDK6, but doesn't exists in official JDK6 API. There are cases where
if you start using internal classes which are not part of JDK XML
Digital Signature but are part of Apache XML Security some clashes
(conflicts) occur with classes with the same name which are from
different package names.
We rename the Apache XML Security packages in the JDK to avoid these
type of issues, so I would be interested to know more about the problems
you are having.
Also to retrieve more information from Certificates I use internal
classes from JDK instead to use external libraries. Why these
functionalities are hidden instead of to being put to official API?
Can you give me more specific examples of which classes you find useful.
The last question is why is it not possible to generate version 3
X509Certificates using JDK? That's why we have to use external libraries
like OpenSSL and other.
Yes, certificate generation API/tools has been requested by other users,
and is something we would like to do and your feedback is important to
help justify it, so I will pass it on.
Thanks for the feedback. If others on this list have other security
features they would like to see in the JDK, please let me know. Also,
feel free to email me privately if you want as not everyone on this list
may be interested in this discussion.
Disclaimer: please note that due to resources, etc we will not be able
to accomodate all requests. Also, all Java SE platform features are
subject to JCP (Java Community Process) approval.
--Sean
