Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 11:13:57 -0700
Message-Id: <199704081813.LAA20733@puffin.eng.sun.com>
From: Marianne Mueller <mrm@eng.sun.com>
To: adam@eerie.fr
Subject: Re: Jni and signed applets
Hi Adam,
If you still have a copy of the bounced email, could you mail it to me
separately and I'll send it to our email people? I want to make sure
the list is healthy.
You can include JNI, and load DLLs or shared libraries, with signed
applets using JDK 1.1.1. You need to use JDK 1.1.1 which has a bug
fix. The bug (or feature) was: the prohibition against loading a
DLL was hardcoded into the JVM, so relaxing the security manager
check, at the Java layer, for a signed applet, wasn't sufficient to
allow an applet to load the DLL. It was still prevented by the JVM.
This bug/feature is fixed in JDK 1.1.1 so that a signed applet can
load a library.
Marianne
> From: adam@eerie.fr
> Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 09:24:55 +0200
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I'v tried to sent my question at java-security@java.sun.com yesterday but
> I received a Mailer Daemon so I send you my question:
>
> ------------------------------------------------------
> Hi,
>
> I would like to know whether it's possible to include JNI in signed applets ?
> In fact, with JDK 1.02 it wasn't possible due to the lack of security that
> could bring the use of a dll for example. With JDK1.1.1 this problem should
> be solved with signed applet !
> If it isn't possible with that way, how could I use a dll in an applet ?
>
> Thanks for you help
>
> Benoit
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