Re: Problems reading a properties file in an applet

From:
"Andrew Thompson" <andrewthommo@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
8 Jan 2007 06:48:14 -0800
Message-ID:
<1168267694.764464.18440@51g2000cwl.googlegroups.com>
steen wrote:
....

I've packed the applet into a jar which the html page then loads, but
when I try to read my version.properties file (which is in the root of
the jar-file) I get an
java.security.AccessControlException: access denied
(java.io.FilePermission version.properties read)

I'm trying to read the file using
p.load(getClass().getResourceAsStream("/version.properties"));


That does not add up. I cannot see why an SAE
is thrown, if reading the properties from a stream
coming from an URL pointing to wtihin one of the
Jar's that is on its own classpath.

One thing I will point out though, it is well worth
breaking the last statement down to ensure all
our assumptions are correct.

URL propertiesAddress =
  getClass.getResource("/version.properties");
// where does this point?
System.out.println(
  "propertiesAddress: " + propertiesAddress );
p.load( propertiesAddress.openStream() );
....

I am probably missing something pretty elementary, but I've gone blind
looking for the problem...any ideas ?


1) To fix the applet..
Provide an SSCCE*.
Provide an URL to the broken applet.

2) To deploy the code (as 'not an applet')..
Code this as a web-start application.

* <http://www.physci.org/codes/sscce>

Andrew T.

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