Quick Tour of Controlling Applications
Trail: Security Features in Java SE

Lesson: Quick Tour of Controlling Applications


Pre-requisite lesson: Quick Tour of Controlling Applets

This lesson shows how to use a security manager to grant or deny access to system resources, this time for applications. The lesson shows how resource accesses for applications may be controlled exactly the same as for unsigned applets.

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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