RFR (12): 8191053: Provide a mechanism to make system's security manager immutable

[Alan Bateman]

On 16/09/2018 20:37, Will Sargent wrote:
> > The security manager is legacy these days and I think we need to 
> figure out a plan how to deprecate and eventually bury it.
>
> I don't know of any research or papers that explicitly say that 
> SecurityManager is "legacy".  I did some research into this a while 
> ago, and while SecurityManager has some major flaws, I don't know of 
> any other way to sandbox a Java application.
>
Have you looked into native containers? It's easy to find examples of 
applications running in a docker container for example.

-Alan
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