Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Knute Johnson Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Grief! Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 14:13:06 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 21:12:59 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="aba33539224e5c782fe0c4053f7756fd"; logging-data="14635"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/YsuTQwqzyzhS++B58lE2x" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.1.1 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:sR7p3gLRy2f/efR4ZZVNO0IuHSY= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:29991 On 9/14/2014 21:23, Kevin McMurtrie wrote: > In article , > Knute Johnson wrote: > >> Two days of grief, my manifest file with only one line in it: >> >> Permissions: sandbox >> >> Java kept rejecting the app as insecure. >> >> knute... > > From what I've read in the Oracle bug database, Applet permissions > essentially don't work any more. I found this out by needing to get an > Applet running - only one Java version works despite the Applet being > correctly built and deployed. > > I'd give up on running Java in a browser. Sun FUBARed the GUI, > graphics, and security APIs to such an incredible extent that I don't > expect them to ever recover. For many cases, the improved APIs > available to JavaScript produces comparable or better performance. > I love your website! Wish I had found that a couple of weeks ago. Had to find it all the hard way. Thanks, -- Knute Johnson