Ciao Roger, just see the commit for the change in build files in trunk ... what do you think on a merge even to 2.0.x ? If it's ok I can do it, tell me ... and add an issue for this (2.1.0 and 2.0.5).
Bye 2014-10-29 13:14 GMT+01:00 Sandro Martini <sandro.mart...@gmail.com>: > Hi, > >> We've now started to deploy our app as an applet using Pivot, and to address >> the new security considerations in Java 7, we needed to set the >> "Permissions" attribute in "pivot-wtk.jar" to "all-permissions". I did this >> by manually modifying the "build.xml" in "trunk". Doesn't seem like a good >> solution going forward. So, anyone have a thought as to how best to resolve >> this? >> Should this be in "build.properties"? > yes >> Should it be set to "all-permissions" always? Should it be set to "sandbox" >> instead? Should it be up to users (i.e., they would have to build the code >> themselves in order to set this)? > I'd set it to "all-permissions" directly in build.properties file > (maybe with a commented line on possible values), so anyone that needs > a different value can change it and rebuild. > >> Anyone know how others are addressing this in their applet code? > no, sorry ... maybe forward this mail even to users could help us to > get a better idea. > > > Note that in our Web Start demo files in the web site, we set the > security tag to all-permissions (inside jnlp files) to make those > requiring additional permissions work. > > Anyway, these are related issues (our and at Infra) to track this: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIVOT-920 > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-3991 > > and we should start soon to take a look (once we receive signing info) > ... Roger could you ask to enable us ? > > Note that if possible we could make the same even for 2.0.x ... > > > As a side note, on Applets and Java 8, did you tried (I fear that some > classes that we refer are are no more usable, it's already in todo > list in a related issue) ? > > Bye, > Sandro
