Low level hooks in JDK for instrumentation of permission checks.

Sean Mullan sean.mullan at oracle.com
Wed Jun 9 15:07:33 UTC 2021



On 6/8/21 9:35 PM, Peter Firmstone wrote:
> I would also like to request that all JDK modules be given 
> ProtectionDomain's following SecurityManager deprecation. Currently some 
> modules have null ProtectionDomain's to show they have AllPermission.  
> However we don't grant AllPermission to code in practise, we like to 
> grant certain Permission's to Principal's, not code, where the Principal 
> is the source of data, indicating the user has been authenticated and we 
> only grant what's necessary and no more.

As described in JEP 411, there are no plans to deprecate 
ProtectionDomain at this time.

--Sean


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