Re: Class SecuritySupport and Class.forName("java.security.AccessController")

2003-01-14 Thread Joseph Kesselman
Every time the Xalan developers ask about abandoning Java 1.1, we're told "That'd be fine with the developers, but their _customers_ refuse to upgrade and since the goal is to serve the customers... we're sorta stuck." At some point, Apache as a whole has to make the decision to abandon 1.1. I

Re: Class SecuritySupport and Class.forName("java.security.AccessController")

2003-01-14 Thread Slava Pestov
On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 11:15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Bottom line: the sooner folks move off of the Java 1.1 platform, the > better for everyone. :) One other thing that would be a nice about a move to Java 2 is the use of collections. Right now from looking at the Xerces source, I can see doz

Re: Class SecuritySupport and Class.forName("java.security.AccessController")

2003-01-14 Thread neilg
Hi Annette, While your modification should work for your application, it won't work in general because querying system properties is (potentially) an operation requiring privilege. The whold point of the SecuritySupport classes is to determine if the concept of operations requiring privilege exis