# Use of Providers

Mayank Upadhyay (Mayank.Upadhyay@Eng)
Wed, 3 Sep 1997 12:47:55 -0700 (PDT)

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    Message-Id: <199709031947.MAA21575@vishwas.eng.sun.com>

    Date: Wed, 3 Sep 1997 12:47:55 -0700 (PDT)

    From: Mayank Upadhyay <Mayank.Upadhyay@Eng>

    Subject: Use of Providers

    To: java-security@java0.javasoft.com

I am working on a Java GSS-API (Generic Security Services API) at SunSoft
for the WebNFS client and am interested in using the provider model of your
JCA.

My understanding is that a Provider basically provides the names of the
classes that implement the abstract engine classes. A factory method in an
engine class would use such a class name to return an instance of the
implementation. However, I dont see any methods in the Provider class that
would allow this information (class name) to be queried from it by another
class.

What am I missing here? Any help will be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
Mayank

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