Thanks for the explanation Toby, This means I can use the java.net.Proxy class without problems in my library.
Cheers, Marcel On Aug 1, 10:13 pm, Toby Reyelts <to...@google.com> wrote: > Hi Marcel, > > The GAE sandbox tries to be very lenient with regards to references to > classes that aren't on the whitelist. Generally speaking, SecurityExceptions > are only thrown if the calling code would have caused the static initializer > of the non-whitelisted class to execute. So, for example, just declaring a > variable of the type, or even referencing a class-literal of the type, won't > cause an exception: > > Class<Proxy> klass = Proxy.class; // No exception! > > On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Marcel Overdijk > <marceloverd...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > > > I did some further investigations and found out something interesting. > > > I used the Java twitter4j library in the past (I'm writing a similar > > library for a different service) successfully on app engine. > > So I checked the twitter4j source code how they did it and then found > > out that the use the Proxy class in their code. > > > So I did some test and included the java.net.Proxy class in one of my > > test projects on app engine. > > Eclipse started complaining about the Proxy not being supported on > > GAE, but I deployed in anyway and it worked. > > In my case I just had a null value assigned to it but I could > > reference java.net.Proxy on the GAE runtime. > > > Now I'm just wondering what it means when a class is not on the GAE > > Class White List? > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Google App Engine for Java" group. > > To post to this group, send email to > > google-appengine-j...@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > google-appengine-java+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<google-appengine-java%2B > > unsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > > . > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine for Java" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine-j...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine-java+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java?hl=en.
