3.3. Architecture Summary
As a summary of the overall process of how the Java 2 security architecture works, this section takes you through the handling of an applet or application. The following steps occur when viewing an applet, either through a Web browser or appletviewer or when running a Java application, possibly from the command line by invoking the program called java.
1. | A class file is obtained and accepted if it passes preliminary bytecode verification. |
2. | The class’s code source is determined. If the code appears to be signed, this step includes signature verification. |
3. | The set of static permissions, if any, to be granted to this class is determined, based on the class’s code source. |
4. | A protection domain is created to mark the ... |
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