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Trail: Security in Java 2 SDK 1.2

Lesson: Quick Tour of Controlling Applications

Pre-requisite lesson: Quick Tour of Controlling Applets(in the Security in Java 2 SDK 1.2 trail)

This lesson gives another quick tour of how to control access to resources, this time for applications. The lesson shows how resource accesses for applications may be controlled exactly the same as for applets, when the applications are run under a security manager.

The steps for this lesson are:

  1. Observe Application Freedom

  2. See How to Restrict Applications

  3. Set Up the Policy File to Grant the Required Permissions

  4. See the Policy File Effects

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