Re: Possible BUG in Mixed Code Security Warning?

From:
Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Sun, 04 Jul 2010 11:04:48 -0400
Message-ID:
<i0q7ul$alc$1@news.eternal-september.org>
On 7/4/2010 8:54 AM, FutureScalper wrote:

[...]
Just because "...URL..." is in the name of the method doesn't mean the
"network" is involved.


     Sorry; my mistake. I keep forgetting that "URL" encompasses
a lot more things than network protocols.

The class in question is loaded 99.9% of the time without issue.


     Why do you believe so? Why do you believe this class, unlike
practically all other classes, is loaded more than once? Have you
traced the JVM's loading of classes? Have you even traced the
loading of this one particular class, perhaps by putting a logging
call in its static initialization code? Have you even determined
what the class *is* -- yes, we know its synthetic name, but have
you figured out which bit of source code it corresponds to?

     You keep rending your garments and tearing your hair about the
injustice of a SecurityException, but I've seen nothing to indicate
you're doing anything but the tearing and rending -- except, maybe,
the "99.9%" figure, but I suspect you just plucked that one from the
air. How did you measure it? What experiments have you tried?

--
Eric Sosman
esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid

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