Security Manager HOWTO??

[lordy]

I have an application that already has a config file that specifies
expected hosts and ports for various operations.
I don't want to duplicate this information in a .policy file as I know
this would cause some extra support calls , but would
rather create a new SecurityManager using the settings from my existing
configuration file.

I cant seem to find a nice howto document on building up a Security
Manager. Do I sub-class it? OR pass a PermissionCollection of
SocketPermission's to an empty
Security Manager or what? Any pointers would be nice. Documentation
looks disjointed at the moment...

Cheers,
Lordy

 

[EJP]

I have an application that already has a config file that specifies
expected hosts and ports for various operations.

You would probably be better off creating a Policy class that
understands your config file and doing setPolicy() with that, using a
standard SecurityManager.