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A JSR 105 cryptographic service is a concrete implementation of the abstract XMLSignatureFactory and KeyInfoFactory classes and is responsible for creating objects and algorithms that parse, generate and validate XML Signatures and KeyInfo structures. A concrete implementation of XMLSignatureFactory must provide support for each of the required algorithms as specified by the W3C recommendation for XML Signatures. It may support other algorithms as defined by the W3C recommendation or other specifications.

JSR 105 leverages the JCA provider model for registering and loading XMLSignatureFactory and KeyInfoFactory implementations.

Each concrete XMLSignatureFactory or KeyInfoFactory implementation supports a specific XML mechanism type that identifies the XML processing mechanism that an implementation uses internally to parse and generate XML signature and KeyInfo structures. This JSR supports one standard type, DOM. The XML Digital Signature API early access provider implementation that is bundled with Java WSDP supports the DOM mechanism. Support for new standard types, such as JDOM, may be added in the future.

An XML Digital Signature API implementation should use underlying JCA engine classes, such as java.security.Signature and java.security.MessageDigest, to perform cryptographic operations.

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