I have a signed applet that manages a small on-client-disk database.
Javascript code in a CGI-generated page makes calls to methods on the
applet to access the database.

I'm trying to get this to run in Mozilla/Netscape 6.2.

I have a couple of questions:

1. On Netscape 4, it was necessary to assert privilege in the Java
   code by making a call something like this:

   netscape.security.PrivilegeManager.getPrivilegeManager().enablePrivilege(
                "UniversalFileAccess")

   My reading of the documentation for the Java plugin from Sun is
   that this call will still succeed in Mozilla but is a no-op.
   If so how does the applet code specify what privileges it needs ?

2. Is it the case in Mozilla that if I wish to call a method on this
   privileged applet from the Javascript layer, the Javascript code
   itself must also be signed ?
   If so must it also assert privilege ?
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