Re: java 1.1.4

Charlie Lai (Charlie.Lai@Eng)
Wed, 26 Nov 1997 09:25:50 -0800 (PST)

From: Charlie.Lai@Eng (Charlie Lai)
Message-Id: <199711261725.JAA29752@angeles.eng.sun.com>
Subject: Re: java 1.1.4
To: jorendt@ozemail.com.au (John Orendt)
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 09:25:50 -0800 (PST)
In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19971121093506.0069910c@ozemail.com.au> from "John Orendt" at Nov 21, 97 09:35:30 am

> 1) To develop a locally-installed Java applet that will write data from a
> browser to the local disk, thereby demonstrating that such applets are not
> covered by the same security restrictions as apply to downloaded appplets.

to accomplish this using appletviewer/hotjava:
http://java.sun.com/security/signExample
in netscape:
http://developer.netscape.com/software/signedobj/index.html
with IE:
http://www.microsoft.com/security

> 2) To confirm whether or not such a Java applet can call external non-Java
> code (C and C++) in DLLs

java applets can call C code in DLL's in some limited
circumstances. for example, netscape 3.x did not allow file I/O.
to get around this, applets relied on DLL's.

charlie