Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 09:58:24 -0800
Message-Id: <199702251758.JAA15155@puffin.eng.sun.com>
From: Marianne Mueller <mrm@eng.sun.com>
To: guthery@slb.com
Subject: Re: ETA for java.security.acl?
You get the prize for most pithy statement of a question!
We're working on the infrastructure for more flexible
policy/permissions configuration. This is slated for the next
release.
In JDK 1.1, there is an acl package, but JDK semantics aren't
associated with it. By that I mean, the acl package is a set
of higher-level Java classes, but there isn't JDK "system level"
support to implement those acls. There's nothing in JDK 1.1 that
will enforce an acl that you create using the current acl package.
That kind of support is what we're working on now for the next
release.