Re: [Jessie-discuss] Jessie and the J2SE 1.5

[Casey Marshall]

On Nov 12, 2005, at 11:59 AM, Josh Flachsbart wrote:

> Hey All,
>
> I have an SSL client application currently running under Sun's Java  
> 1.5
> using JSSE.  I came across your implementation and was hoping that I
> could use it as a Provider.  Of course there were a lot of changes  
> from
> 1.4 to 1.5, in particular the SSLEngine.  Because of this, the
> SSLContext initialization takes a X509ExtendedKeyManager instead of
> the older X509KeyManager, which is what Jessie's key manager factory
> returns.  I assume this means I have to somehow rip out the 1.5
> implementation of JSSE and JCE and use the gnu JCE instead which
> matches the 1.4 spec.

I'm not sure I follow. SSLContext takes an array of KeyManager  
objects, not any more specific subtype.

Are you trying to initialize a Sun SSLContext with a Jessie  
KeyManagerFactory? Because that surely will not work, if Sun's  
SSLContext requires X509ExtendedKeyManager.

> Before I start pulling hair going down that road, am I missing some
> simpler way to use Jessie under 1.5?

IF you don't mix Jessie and Sun implementations, and don't use any  
new methods introduced in 1.5 (this includes SSLEngine; Jessie has no  
support for that), then it should just work.

I'm a little confused about what you are trying to accomplish. Can  
you provide some more details?