GWT + JDBC

2010-01-27 Thread ddyer
Can someone explain why this occurs? I"m trying to connect a JDBC driver to the server end of a test application. The JDBC driver is in the classpath. The server is running at http://localhost:/ Err java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.sqlite.JDBC java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.sql

Re: Why Not Bypass The Middle Man

2009-09-24 Thread ddyer
I think this discussion is off the track. If you have a specific application, for a specific class of customers, by all means bypass the middle man. That's not what browsers and web protocols are intended for.Web protocols and browsers were invented to allow arbitrary content providers to e

Re: Discussion on security-for-gwt-applications

2009-09-18 Thread ddyer
On Sep 10, 9:56 pm, Sri wrote: > If you have built your site correctly, a malicious browser cannot harm > your site. > Vacuously true. In practice there are huge problems if you can't trust your browser, which you can't. Lets construct a simple example. Suppose I have a web site with a use

Discussion on security-for-gwt-applications

2009-09-10 Thread ddyer
Isn't any security that's based on the browser enforcing a policy essentially a sham? Or more politely, guaranteed to be ineffective against a deliberate attack. The browsers are open source, and the communications channel is unencrypted, and you don't have to use a browser at all. There are jus

Javascript security discussion

2009-09-08 Thread ddyer
There ought to be two different discussions - (1) for attacks on the user that use the web site as an unwitting accomplice, perhaps intended to compromise the user's account and send unauthorised information to timbuktu. (2) attacks on the web site itself, perhaps intended to extract bulk data t