Chapter 12. Deploying the Security Architecture

Security is the chief pretence of civilization.

—George Bernard Shaw

Chapter 3 provided an overview of the Java security architecture, and Chapters 4 through 6 supplied details. Chapter 7 showed how to customize the architecture: create new Permission types, extend the SecurityManager, and so on. This chapter provides information about deploying the security architecture.

Section 12.1 provides a link to Web pages that document how to install the Java 2 platform software. Sections 12.2 and 12.3 supply information that is relevant to various configuration options and that is thus referred to by other sections of this chapter and others in the book. Section 12.2 specifies what the placeholder <java.home> ...

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