[rfc][icedtea-web] fix for RH816592

[Omair Majid]

On 05/23/2012 10:22 AM, Deepak Bhole wrote:
> * Jiri Vanek <jvanek at redhat.com> [2012-05-03 08:21]:
>> This patch is fixing
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=816592  reproduced in
>> [rfc][icedtea-web] reproducer for RH816592 (http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2012-May/018357.html)
>>
>> This patch have small (one output message) overleap with [rfc]
>> [icedtea-web] providing little bit more debug outputs for few
>> methods (http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2012-April/018332.html)
>>
> 
> This patch tries to manually add an entry to the security map. However it should not
> be needed. Whatever is adding the jar should add an entry to the map --
> the bug should be fixed there IMO.

This is an implementation-specific behaviour of the proprietary javaws
that some programs seem to rely on. We have other bugs caused by the
same issue too: PR568 [1] and PR839.

Cheers,
Omair

[1] http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=568
[2] http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=839