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Sams Teach Yourself J2EE™ in 21 Days
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Sams Teach Yourself J2EE™ in 21 Days

by Martin Bond, Dan Haywood, Debbie Law, Andy Longshaw, Peter Roxburgh
April 2002
Beginner to intermediate
1128 pages
26h 33m
English
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Security and the Servlet Sandbox

A servlet runs within the Web server and, if allowed, can access the file system and network or could even call System.exit() to shutdown the Web server. Giving a servlet this level of trust is not advisable, and most Web servers run servlets in a sandbox, which restricts the damage a rogue servlet could potentially cause.

A servlet sandbox is an area where servlets are given restricted access to the server. Servlets running in the sandbox can be constrained from accessing the file system and network. This is similar to how Web browsers control applets. The implementation of the sandbox is server dependent, but a servlet in a sandbox is unlikely to be able to

  • Access server files

  • Access the network

  • Run commands on ...

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