Re: signed Jar files and JNI

Marianne Mueller (mrm@eng.sun.com)
Mon, 17 Mar 1997 23:38:28 -0800

Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 23:38:28 -0800
Message-Id: <199703180738.XAA03648@puffin.eng.sun.com>
From: Marianne Mueller <mrm@eng.sun.com>
To: marcus@sandiego.altris.com, java-security@java
Subject: Re: signed Jar files and JNI

Like Benjamin said -- this is a bug that was in JDK 1.1, and we
verified that it's fixed in JDK 1.1.1. (thanks Vijay!)

I had a brain fade on the day when I talked about this problem as
though it were not a bug. Sorry about that. It was indeed due to the
fact that a runtime check was happening down at the VM level, in the
case of an applet trying to load a DLL or shared object. That
lower-level check is what needed to be updated to work with signed
code.

Marianne