# Re: Query.

Roland Schemers (Roland.Schemers@Eng)
Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:03:22 -0800 (PST)

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    From: Roland.Schemers@Eng (Roland Schemers)

    Message-Id: <199803310403.UAA13541@crypto.eng.sun.com>

    Subject: Re: Query.

    To: crawford@twofish.com (Lee Crawford)

    Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:03:22 -0800 (PST)

    In-Reply-To: <35202C47.63251878@twofish.com> from "Lee Crawford" at Mar 30, 98 03:35:35 pm

>
> Greetings,
>
> I was wondering about the policy file format and why a custom-format
> had been chosen as opposed to an XML-based one. (Designed prior to XML
> hoopla?) Is there any interest in pursuing a future XML-based format?

It was done before the XML-hoopla ;-) I've looked at using an XML-based
format, but it is too late for a such a change to go into 1.2. Once there
are standard Java extensions that parse XML we'll probably work on
an XML format. You could also define your own XML-based format and
write a tool to convert it into the format expected by JDK 1.2 ;-)
It is also possible to plug in your own Policy object by changing a
security property, or by calling Policy.setPolicy.

If you have any suggestions for what an XML-based policy file would look
like, please send them to us.

> PS: The email archive of the java-security mailing-list mentioned in the
> back of the Java Security Architecture (Oct/1/97) document is no longer
> accessible. Say archive available at
>
> http://jeeves.javasoft.com/hypermail/java-security-archive/index.html

thanks. java.sun.com/security/ has a pointer to the latest archives.

roland

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