The Service Provider Interface (SPI)
for the {@link CertPathBuilder CertPathBuilder} class. All
CertPathBuilder implementations must include a class (the
SPI class) that extends this class (CertPathBuilderSpi) and
implements all of its methods. In general, instances of this class should
only be accessed through the CertPathBuilder class. For
details, see the Java Cryptography Architecture.
Concurrent Access
Instances of this class need not be protected against concurrent
access from multiple threads. Threads that need to access a single
CertPathBuilderSpi instance concurrently should synchronize
amongst themselves and provide the necessary locking before calling the
wrapping CertPathBuilder object.
However, implementations of CertPathBuilderSpi may still
encounter concurrency issues, since multiple threads each
manipulating a different CertPathBuilderSpi instance need not
synchronize. |
