Yesterday I vowed to turn on SecurityManager all the time, and figure out the necessary policy files for Java applications that I use.
Ross mused that it would be cool if the Java runtime provided a flag to generate this information automatically.
What a great idea! And, who needs help from the runtime? PermissionGrabber (2/10/03 link now fixed) is a simple Java app that will execute some other Java app, figure out what permissions it needs to run, and generate an appropriate policy file. All you have to do is
java PermissionGrabber SomeApp
I just threw this together and can think of a few dozen little enhancements already. Let me know if this is cool and what you would like to see added.
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