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Re: Teaching Java, teaching what?

From	"Chris Uppal" <chris.uppal@metagnostic.REMOVE-THIS.org>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
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Subject	Re: Teaching Java, teaching what?
Date	2013-12-09 07:18 +0000
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Arne Vajhøj wrote:

> I do think Java applets has a few extra features that
> may have contributed to the problems:
> * the ability to be allowed privs by user
> * full API

Also a security model that defaults to insecure, in the sense that the platform 
implementers have to get some pretty tricky code right every time to avoid 
leaving loopholes.  Which they haven't always done.

Not suggesting that the immediate competition is any better (though it may be 
for all I know), but in retrospect Java's security ambitions weren't backed by 
a sufficiently radical implementation/architecture.

    -- chris

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Re: Teaching Java, teaching what? Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2013-12-08 11:49 -0500
  Re: Teaching Java, teaching what? markspace <markspace@nospam.nospam> - 2013-12-08 11:03 -0800
    Re: Teaching Java, teaching what? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-12-08 22:26 -0500
      Re: Teaching Java, teaching what? "Chris Uppal" <chris.uppal@metagnostic.REMOVE-THIS.org> - 2013-12-09 07:18 +0000

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