As an interesting (but mostly unrelated) tidbit, javadoc calls
System.exit. This caused some problems for the Ant developers.
Randy
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nils O. Sel�sdal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 2:16 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Preventing System.exit(0)
>
>
> On Monday 30 July 2001 04:33 pm, you wrote:
> > At 06:24 AM 7/30/2001, you wrote:
> > >Is it possible to configure Tomcat to avoid shutdown
> > >in case the jsp page contains the code:
> > >
> > ><% System.exit(0); %>
> >
> > Java SERVER pages are server-side code. Why is having
> > a system object issue an exit method an issue for you?
> > Do you plan on having your server run black box code?
> Say he invites his friends, the school, whatever, to put
> servlets/jsp pages
> on his server. Its nice to have some security there , to
> prevent the next
> ass**** to put in a System.exit(...) and thereby stopping the
> entire server.
> Or it might be that other software needs to be used, and
> someone put in a
> system.exit there in a try/catch block ( I experienced that..).
> You can install a security manager to prevent this, I dont
> remember excactly
> how i did that, but its pretty easy, and can be found in the book
> 'Core Java 2 - Advanced Features' I think sun also have some
> tutorials on
> this. http://java.sun.com
> --
> Nils O. Sel�sdal
>
