# Re: JDK1.1.3 applet security exception

Roland Schemers (Roland.Schemers@Eng)
Fri, 22 Aug 1997 11:13:33 -0700 (PDT)

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    Date: Fri, 22 Aug 1997 11:13:33 -0700 (PDT)

    From: Roland Schemers <Roland.Schemers@Eng>

    Subject: Re: JDK1.1.3 applet security exception

    To: steven.j.blumfield@ac.com, mrm@Eng

>
> Typically, however (as described on the SFAQ at
> http://java.sun.com/sfaq), downloaded applets are not allowed to
> instantiate packages in the sun.* or java.* namespace. (This is
> "loosely speaking".) I'm not sure why your code on line 56
>
> Class.forName("sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver");
>
> caused a security exception. That doesn't seem like a particularly
> intrusive access.
>

That statement is attempting to access a class in sun.*, thus it
should have caused an exception to be thrown...

roland

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