Re: Moving system properties to gnu.classpath.*

[Michael Koch]

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Am Donnerstag, 7. Oktober 2004 10:26 schrieb Jeroen Frijters:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to propose to move the system properties to a public
> class in the gnu.classpath package. This removes the need to use
> GetPropertyAction to access the properties and -- more importantly
> to me -- it also greatly simplifies class initialization
> dependencies (currently, every class that requires access to the
> system properties sucks in a huge dependency (java.lang.System,
> SecurityManager and who knows what else).
>
> The obvious downside is that we'd really need to get serious about
> preventing untrusted code access to the gnu.classpath.* package.
>
> Any thoughts, comments or objections?

I'm all for simplifying and generalizing code but how do you want to 
implement this in a secure way ? Any working code written for it 
yet ?


Michael
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