December 1999
Intermediate to advanced
816 pages
20h 27m
English
One of Java's design features is that the language is secure. There are several features of Java that support security, such as message digests and access control lists, not to mention the support provided by the Java Cryptography Extension, or JCE. The focus of this chapter is the new support for security in Java 2: policy-based permissions. This topic focuses not so much on code but on tools that support security. In this chapter, security relates primarily to control of assets, or what a program is allowed to do on a given system. This chapter covers the following topics:
Using policy-based permissions
Creating a policy file
Signing code
Creating a digital certificate
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