Re: java.security.AccessControlException issue

From:
"Andrew Thompson" <andrewthommo@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
24 Mar 2007 02:02:20 -0700
Message-ID:
<1174726940.607910.148570@l77g2000hsb.googlegroups.com>
On Mar 24, 7:11 pm, "merrittr" <merri...@gmail.com> wrote:
...

so you think a newer sdk is the answer?


No. I was merely pointing out that Java
bytecodes are 'upward compatible', and anything
that can run in 1.1, should also be able to run
in 1.2 through 1.6(+).

That, of course, is assuming the code does
not rely on quirky behaviour of a particular
JVM, as some code (rarely) does. I doubt
Adobe would be that silly.

..I want to use the java
pdfviewer
because this site will be used to display answer sets for students.
The idea being I want
to wrap the pdf document and hide from the students the url


Uh-huh..

Be aware that a network sniffer can tell me
(or your students) the exact calls that are
being made, as can bringing up the Java console
and increasing the trace level.

So if I did your course and got '100%', would
you assume I was very clever, or that maybe
I had simply realised where/how to get the
'secret' docs.?

..(as much
as possible) disabling the prnting and
save function they wont be able to pass the answer sets to next years
students


I am bowing out of this thread. I do not
know how you can provide answers to your
students without them cheating

As an aside, there are documents that I
desperately wanted to possess, that had
similar protection schemes. When I was not
in a position to install network sniffers
(or whatever), I would transcribe* the
document.

* As in, read it, then retype the text into
a text editor. For images, it was a simple
matter of taking a screenshot (which is what
I preferred - since I could generally compress
images to a smaller size - than what they were,
when delivered).

Andrew T.

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