simple question - policy file - Java

On 2 Sep 2003 10:48:41 -0700, abbasrazam@yahoo.com (Abbas) wrote or
quoted :

>I have this simple scenario. I have a target class in
>D:\java\Target.class. I have a caller class in D:\java\Caller.class. I
>also have another caller class in D:\java\BadCaller.class. I want to
>give access only to Caller.class to access Target.class. For this I
>created an entry in the policy file like this:

Are you doing this in an Applet or application? You can use the
policy file only to give permission, not to block access to what would
normally be ok, not unless you put your own security manager check in
the potentially forbidden code.

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