Message-Id: <199704251439.HAA18893@f49.hotmail.com>
From: "avoid unwantedstuff" <b3210@hotmail.com>
To: java-security@web2.javasoft.com
Subject: Re: can JNI applets include the DLLs in the same JAR file
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 07:39:02 PDT
Can a signed applet that wants to do JNI include the DLL
in the same JAR as itself.
Thanks.
-Salman
b3210@hotmail.com
> From: Marianne Mueller <mrm@eng.sun.com>
> To: adam@eerie.fr
> Subject: Re: Jni and signed applets
> Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 11:13:57 -0700
>
> 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.
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