Am 18.10.2013, 22:44 Uhr, schrieb Mickey Segal <[email protected]>:
There is nothing here that jumps out to me as something that I can fix, so I will go ahead and file the bug report. I'll probably wait a day in case anyone else has something important to add.
Yes, looks like a Java bug. One thing you could try is to read the property in the init() method instead of the AWT callback. Or you try it inside a periveledged context. (Sorry for not trying it myself but you have the signing infrastructure set up, so... :)
It would be nice to have the ability to add comments to a bug report as we did in the Sun era, since then one could add useful information later. But at least I can post updates to my version at http://www.segal.org/java/SignedAppletTest/ and reference that in the bug report, allowing both the Oracle people and those doing Web searches to find the problem.
Even in the Sun area it was hard to discuss on those bugs. I think it was never really intended to.
BTW: I tollay agree. Java "security" "updates" broke appications for us multiple times as well. We will never ever consider to use JNLP (Appler/WebStart) again. Luckily HTML has become much more powerfull lately. This "situation" (and I dont blame Oracle it started in sun times) really kills Java on the Desktop.
Gruss Bernd -- http://bernd.eckenfels.net
