# Re: Applet security article on Javasoft WEb site

Marianne Mueller (mrm@Eng)
Wed, 4 Jun 1997 09:44:36 -0700

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    Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 09:44:36 -0700

    Message-Id: <199706041644.JAA28311@puffin.eng.sun.com>

    From: Marianne Mueller <mrm@Eng>

    To: gng@hplb.hpl.hp.com

    Subject: Re: Applet security article on Javasoft WEb site

There's an example on the web site:
http://java.sun.com/sfaq/example/getHiddenProperties.html

However, appletviewer and HotJava observe the settings in
~/.hotjava/properties, but Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer
don't.

This is one example of the sort of thing we are trying to enable
developers to configure externally of their system, in the upcoming
JDK. (See http://java.sun.com/security/handout.html for a brief
summary.) The idea is that the policy will be externally
configurable so that policy isn't hard-coded into applications.
There isn't a lot of public details yet, that describe the next JDK,
but we're working on getting more info on this up on the web site.

Marianne

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