<AWT Dev> AWT impact of deprecating/changing SecurityManager#checkTopLevelWindow, checkSystemClipboardAccess, checkTopLevelWindow

Mandy Chung mandy.chung at oracle.com
Tue Sep 3 19:40:39 PDT 2013


On 9/2/2013 8:49 AM, Alan Bateman wrote:
>
> This is a follow-up to thread from June [1] where I proposed 
> deprecating the SecurityManager checkTopLevelWindow, 
> checkSystemClipboardAccess, checkTopLevelWindow methods.
>
> At the time then Anthony agreed with the spec change but I didn't come 
> back with a final webrev and get the change pushed. I've been on my 
> "to do" list for a while and I'm only getting to it now. Here's the 
> updated webrev:
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~alanb/8008981/webrev.02/
>

This change looks good to me.  In the new test line 89, why is the 
assertChecked commented out?  Should it check for "accessClipboard" 
permission?

Mandy

> The spec changes are the same as what we had in June, it's just a 
> re-based patch. I've also added a test and I'm open to suggests as to 
> whether to put this (alternatively it can be split up, with separate 
> tests for Toolkit and Window if needed).
>
> Thanks,
> Alan.
>
> [1] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/awt-dev/2013-June/005019.html



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