Re: SecurityManager and policy files

From:
"Kenneth P. Turvey" <evoturvey@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
10 Oct 2009 05:48:52 GMT
Message-ID:
<4ad02044$0$10020$ec3e2dad@unlimited.usenetmonster.com>
On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 05:19:41 +0000, Kenneth P. Turvey wrote:

[snip]

I needed to add the following to my SecurityManger class:

        Policy policy = Policy.getInstance("JavaPolicy",
                new URIParameter(new URI("file://"
        + System.getProperty("java.security.policy"))));

[Snip]

I spoke too soon. Apparently this isn't good enough either.


OK, I'm completely baffled. No matter what I do I cannot get my security
manager to use the policy file. I also can't get it to complain if it
isn't there. If I change the URI above to be "file:///
i_am_a_missing_file" I don't get an exception or anything and the code
behaves in exactly the same way.

I also can't find a way to simply go through the policy file an print out
what permissions have been granted. You can do so if you provide a code
base, but I really want to see everything in the loaded system policy and
see if it matches what I expect it to be.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

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