Yeah I thought about that right after I fired off my earlier response. So that's fine to merge the change to 2.0.x branch (or I can do it easily also).
Thanks, ~Roger > On Nov 2, 2014, at 3:47 AM, Sandro Martini <sandro.mart...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 >>
