CR 7149144 - rt.jar: missing sun.security.x509.X500Signer class (original) (raw)

Sean Mullan sean.mullan at oracle.com
Tue Feb 28 16:54:52 UTC 2012

On 2/28/12 11:21 AM, Chris Hegarty wrote:

[cc'ing security-dev at o.j.n, they may be able to suggest a suitable alternative, supported, API to use].

I would recommend they implement the functionality entirely in the OpenDS product. X500Signer is a very simple class and can be implemented using the existing java.security.Signature and javax.security.auth.x500.X500Principal classes.

--Sean

-Chris. On 02/28/12 04:22 PM, Seán Coffey wrote: The issue would lie with the OpenDS team then. They need to update their code and use supported JDK APIs.

regards, Sean. On 28/02/2012 16:10, Lindner, Bärbel wrote: sun.security.x509.x500Signer is used from OpenDS (our version is v2.2.0). That is one reason that OpenDS is not runnable with JRE7.

Regards Baerbel -----Original Message----- From: Seán Coffey [mailto:sean.coffey at oracle.com] Sent: Dienstag, 28. Februar 2012 17:07 To: Lindner, Bärbel Cc: jdk7u-dev at openjdk.java.net Subject: Re: CR 7149144 - rt.jar: missing sun.security.x509.X500Signer class See http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/viewbug.do?bugid=6876158 sun.security.x509 package is JRE private and should not be used by 3rd party applications. regards, Sean. On 28/02/2012 15:38, Lindner, Bärbel wrote: Please readd class "sun.security.x509.X500Signer" in rt.jar. The class was available in JRE 1.6 rt.jar.

Thanks Baerbel -- Baerbel Lindner Fujitsu Technology Solutions

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