Provider.Service

Class Provider.Service

Enclosing class:
Provider
public static class Provider.Service
extends Object

The description of a security service. It encapsulates the properties of a service and contains a factory method to obtain new implementation instances of this service.

Each service has a provider that offers the service, a type, an algorithm name, and the name of the class that implements the service. Optionally, it also includes a list of alternate algorithm names for this service (aliases) and attributes, which are a map of (name, value) String pairs.

This class defines the methods supports