Re: Applet Security

Marianne Mueller (Marianne.Mueller@Eng)
Mon, 4 May 1998 11:16:05 -0700 (PDT)

Date: Mon, 4 May 1998 11:16:05 -0700 (PDT)
From: Marianne Mueller <Marianne.Mueller@Eng>
Subject: Re: Applet Security
To: java-security@web1.javasoft.com, chris.floersch@pvii.com

Thanks for the comments. This is fixed in JDK 1.2. You can set up
the policy file for your enterprise to say that any applet from www.sun.com
is allowed to connect to any computer in the *.sun.com domain. Similar
fine grain control is possible for all the various things the security manager
currently checks: file system access, properties access, loading libraries
or DLLs, etc.

For more information about JDK 1.2 security, see
http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.2/docs/guide/security/index.html

> If I download an applet from www.sun.com that applet should be able
> to contact any server within the sun.com domain rather than just
> www.sun.com... This would give applet developers the capability to build
> HA and load balancing applications with applets. These two things are
> musts before you can even say that Java applets are ready for the
> Enterprise!
>