J2SE est mort, vive Java SE! (original) (raw)
Sean Mullan sean.mullan at oracle.com
Thu Dec 5 22:19:35 UTC 2013
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On 12/02/2013 05:05 PM, Sean Mullan wrote:
What I am not 100% sure is whether the 'j2' in those library names is from "Java 2". The 2 simply could have been a way to avoid naming clashes. IBM's JDK includes a pkcs11 library named libjpkcs11.so. Also, pkcs11 support and the libj2pkcs11.so library were not added to the JDK until 1.5, long after Java 2 was announced. Anyway, I'll go ask around and try to find out.
Just following up on this. So I asked around, and though nobody knows for sure (the original developer has moved on), a few people were pretty sure the j2 in those library names does not stand for "Java 2" but "Java to" as in "Java to PKCS11" since they are essentially libraries that allow you to bridge between the standard Java crypto API and a standard native crypto API, such as PKCS11.
--Sean
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