# Re: Protection Domains and Principals

Marianne Mueller (Marianne.Mueller@Eng)
Thu, 23 Jul 1998 11:10:09 -0700 (PDT)

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    Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 11:10:09 -0700 (PDT)

    From: Marianne Mueller <Marianne.Mueller@Eng>

    Subject: Re: Protection Domains and Principals

    To: java-security@java.Sun.COM, christen.tobias@ch.swissbank.com

> Until now we employed implementations of the java.security.acl.*
> interfaces for ACL based authorization. From the fact that
> the Permission class in java.security doesn't implement
> the java.security.acl.Permission interface I concluded
> that your architecture shift will make the whole
> java.security.acl.* in the long term redundant (deprecated?).

That's true, although of course it is used by the Java Server

>
> I would like to bring in as much as possible of your plans.
> If you tell me that your work is still miles away than I
> probably make it a research project and stay with the
> java.security.acl based implementation we had until
> now.

There are no schedules announced but it will be in a release after JDK 1.2.
JDK1.2beta4 was just made available.

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