# Re: About RMI and SSL

Jeff Nisewanger (Jeff.Nisewanger@Eng)
Tue, 17 Feb 1998 15:58:27 -0800

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    Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 15:58:27 -0800

    From: Jeff.Nisewanger@Eng (Jeff Nisewanger)

    Message-Id: <199802172358.PAA10848@puuoo.eng.sun.com>

    To: java-security@web2.javasoft.com, kkwh@hotmail.com

    Subject: Re: About RMI and SSL

> Is it possible to use RMI through SSL in an Applet?
> I hear that it is possible to do it in Application but
> why not in an applet ?
> Thanks!

It was not possible in JDK1.1 to set an RMISocketFactory that was
object-specific -- you could only set a socket factory for the entire
JVM. Since it is unlikely to be sensible for an applet to set an RMI
socket factory for the entire browser, doing this from an applet was
disallowed.

This has been fixed in JDK1.2. See the JDK1.2 beta2 RMI
enhancements documentation on http://java.sun.com under
"products & apis".

Jeff

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