Re: [Openjnlp-devel] Tweak to AppletRunner.java

[Christopher H. <he...@ez...>]

On Friday 17 May 2002 08:37 am, Scott Kovatch wrote:

> They're related to JavaBeans -- I believe there's a feature of the plugin
> that allows you to wrap a Java Bean as an ActiveX control, so there's a
> pile of code that treats JavaBeans like applets.  As a security measure you
> don't want components reading from or writing to each others streams, so
> this is how they keep them separate.
>
> That's a 10-minute reading-of-the-code analysis, so I may be wrong.  But,
> you're implementation sounds like it matches what's in the plugin.  I doubt
> it will ever get used, though.

That is my understanding of their primary purpose, based on a similar quick 
scan of things.

There is a nagging idea in the back of my head that this is also intended for 
use in visual bean IDEs.  That may just be the product of all the Nyquil I've 
been taking lately (I >hate< having the flu in May :-) ).

					Chris