Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 21:28:08 -0800
From: mrm@doppio (Marianne Mueller)
Message-Id: <199702070528.VAA17893@puffin.eng.sun.com>
To: jorge@maruja.tfo.upm.es
Subject: Re: Question about DLL
Greetings Jorge,
There are three parts to the answer.
1) With JDK 1.1, we distribute a simple "browser" called appletviewer.
It isn't really a browser, but it knows how to interpret the one
HTML tag, <applet>. The JDK 1.1 appletviewer will allow applets
signed by trusted entities full access to your system, including
loading a DLL.
2) We don't know any announced dates when this feature will be supported
in the big browsers such as Netscape and Microsoft. I suggest you
contact those vendors, if you would like to see them support Java
signatures as defined in JDK 1.1.
3) In future releases, you will be able to specify finer grain control
over what a signed applet does, so that for example you will be able
to say that such-and-such applet can load such-and-such DLL, but not
be allowed any other access. This support is not yet in the JDK but
we are working towards that.
Marianne
> From jorge@maruja.tfo.upm.es Thu Feb 6 10:19:59 1997
> From: "Jorge Ruiz Cazorla" <jorge@maruja.tfo.upm.es>
> Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 19:24:59 -0800
> To: mrm@Eng
> Subject: Question
> Mime-Version: 1.0
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> February 6, 1997
>
> I have to develop several applets and a DLL with native code and
> would like to know if a signed applet will be capable of loading a DLL.
>
> I thank you for your time and consideration and look forward to hearing
> from you.
>
> Jorge Ruiz Cazorla
> (Polytechnic University of Madrid)
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