Re: Microsoft Spartan will support Applets

From:

Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

Thu, 26 Mar 2015 08:13:34 -0400

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On 3/26/2015 7:52 AM, Qu0ll wrote:

JavaFX *does* have a new deployment strategy (installer packages with VM
included) and does an incredible amount of things that Swing could never
do and in a completely different and improved way. Plus, it now runs on
iOS, Android and Embedded platforms as well without any local JVM.

Slight digression: By "without any local JVM" I guess you mean the
JVM (or a required subset) is delivered along with the application. Is
this safe? How do I know I'm not being handed an unpatched, out-of-date
JVM? How do I know I'm not being handed a *hacked* JVM?

Way back when, it was supposed to be safe to download and run Java
code: The JVM that you yourself had installed to run it would police
the safety of the downloaded code. The scheme was less than perfectly
air-tight (ahem), but may have been slightly more secure than just
downloading and running a random executable. Are you saying that the
latter is now Oracle's preferred modus operandi?

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