Apparently people are still using them for executing Java on the client machine, especially to read data from peripheral devices.
On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 2:13 PM, Afkham Azeez <[email protected]> wrote: > People still use Applets? !!! > > > On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 1:29 PM, Pradeep Fernando <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> regarding the https://wso2.org/jira/browse/CARBON-14144 >> >> Currently we cant embed any applets within our JSP pages. The root cause >> being session check during applet class file, load requests in the carbon >> server and applet loaders using different sessionID. >> >> Starting from tomcat 7 container implementation they don't allow applet >> code to use same browser session. [1] [2] >> Starting with tomcat 7, user has to explicitly pass in sessionID to the >> applet code in order to authenticate the request. >> >> however we can get this to work by making .class files and .jar files as >> non-secured content in the >> >> CarbonSecuredContext#allowNonsecuredContent() method. >> >> have to evaluate whether this will introduce any security vulnerabilties. >> One other option is to make NonsecuredContent configurable.. >> >> >> [1] >> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/tomcat-users/201107.mbox/%[email protected]%3E >> [2] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/eid-applet/zAnrlfzm-1k >> >> thanks, >> --Pradeep >> > > > > -- > *Afkham Azeez* > Director of Architecture; WSO2, Inc.; http://wso2.com > Member; Apache Software Foundation; http://www.apache.org/ > * <http://www.apache.org/>** > email: **[email protected]* <[email protected]>* cell: +94 77 3320919 > blog: **http://blog.afkham.org* <http://blog.afkham.org>* > twitter: **http://twitter.com/afkham_azeez*<http://twitter.com/afkham_azeez> > * > linked-in: **http://lk.linkedin.com/in/afkhamazeez* > * > * > *Lean . Enterprise . Middleware* >
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