[11] RFR: 8193032: Remove terminally deprecated SecurityManager APIs

Sean Mullan sean.mullan at oracle.com
Tue Mar 27 15:28:44 UTC 2018


On 3/27/18 11:26 AM, Alan Bateman wrote:
> On 27/03/2018 16:15, Sean Mullan wrote:
>> Please remove this change to remove several SecurityManager methods 
>> that have been marked for removal since Java SE 9: 
>> checkTopLevelWindow, checkSystemClipboardAccess, 
>> checkAwtEventQueueAccess, and checkMemberAccess. These methods no 
>> longer have any benefit, and removing them will follow through on the 
>> the plan to remove them.
> Right, these method were degraded to check AllPermission and I don't 
> recall anyone screaming. This gives some confidence that they aren't 
> widely used. So I think looks good.

Thanks, and I obviously meant to say "Please *review* this change" above :)

--Sean



More information about the security-dev mailing list