Re: Security question including SSL and JCE.

David Brownell (db@Eng)
Tue, 29 Dec 1998 16:29:50 -0800

Jason von Nieda wrote:
>
> Secondly, I would like to follow the posted SSL API (javax.net.ssl)
> but it seems to be getting a bit dated. Is this API going to be
> continued or is it dead? I notice some of the methods specify
> packages that are now part of JDK 1.2, so I assume it needs to
> be updated to reflect that. My primary concern is whether or not
> this API will ever make it out of Early Access?

That API has been out of "Early Access" for well over a year now,
and is part of a number of shipping products. The API can't change
in any incompatible way, since products depend on implementations
of it (notably from Sun).

- Dave