<AWT Dev> RfR JDK-8051626 Rework security restrictions of Java Access Bridge and related Utilities

Mandy Chung mandy.chung at oracle.com
Wed Jul 15 03:48:10 UTC 2015


Moving the internal classes to com.sun.java.accessibility.internal is right as com.sun.java.accessibility is a supported API.  Sean is right that no need to specify /secure=java.lang.SecurityManager.

Mandy

> On Jul 14, 2015, at 11:57 PM, Sean Mullan <sean.mullan at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> You don't need to add the /secure option to jtreg. That's overriding jtreg's SecurityManager and causing you to have to grant jtreg permissions to read files in the jtreg.security.policy file. Just add the /java.security.policy option -- this will use jtreg's SecurityManager which is sufficient for testing this bug, and then you won't need the jtreg.security.policy file.
> 
> Looks good otherwise.
> 
> --Sean
> 
> On 07/13/2015 06:34 PM, Pete Brunet wrote:
>> Please review the webrev for
>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8051626
>> 
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ptbrunet/JDK-8051626/webrev.00/
>> 
>> This is so the the Java Accessibility Utilities package,
>> com.sun.java.accessibility.util, can be run with the security manager
>> active but the non-public accessibility packages won't, i.e.
>> com.sun.java.accessibility.internal and
>> com.sun.java.accessibility.util.internal.
>> 
>> Running the regression test proves that there will be a security
>> exception when using a method of com.sun.java.accessibility.util before
>> the fix but not after.
>> 
>> Pete
>> 



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