applet and native method

[kaul]

i have read that applet cannot call a native method due to security
reasons.But start() in thread class is a native method.Then how is it that
we can create thead in applets?

 

[Boudewijn Dijkstra]

i have read that applet cannot call a native method due to security
reasons.But start() in thread class is a native method.Then how is it that
we can create thead in applets?

You mean you haven't tried to just *do* it?

 

[Dave Neary]

Hi,

i have read that applet cannot call a native method due to security
reasons.

This is untrue.

Cheers,
Dave.

 

[Thomas Fritsch]

i have read that applet cannot call a native method due to security
reasons.

Not quite true!
More exactly: You cannot load your *own* native libraries (*.dll on
Windows, lib*.so on Unixes) from an applet due to security reasons.
But start() in thread class is a native method.Then how is it that

we can create thead in applets?

But of course you can load the native libraries of the JVM *itself*
(containing native methods like Thread#start).

 

[Andrew Thompson]

Not quite true!
More exactly: You cannot load your *own* native libraries (*.dll on
Windows, lib*.so on Unixes) from an ..
unsigned

...applet due to security reasons.

( If we are being very accurate. ;-)