Hi, but usually now we run 2.0.x applets/applications with Java 7 updated jre, so I don't think it's so bad. Unless objections I'll do the merge and create a related issue, to track it.
Bye Il 01/nov/2014 01:43 "Roger Whitcomb" <rogerandb...@rbwhitcomb.com> ha scritto: > I don't think it is necessary for 2.0.x because we don't build there with > 1.7 by default, but in trunk we do. > > ~Roger Whitcomb > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Oct 31, 2014, at 1:42 AM, Sandro Martini <sandro.mart...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > 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 > > >
