RE: Default Policy

[Jeroen Frijters]

Casey Marshall wrote:
> Bug classpath/22853 prompted this, btw.
> 
> Kaffe and jamvm should (I posted patches for both of these); 
> probably gcj (I posted a patch for this too, but it's been
> hit-or-miss on whether or not my GCJ patches are accepted); I
> think I remember reading that IKVM implements it;

IKVM supports VMAccessController (and I originally filed 22853).

> I remember discussion some time ago about supporting a similar thing  
> in Classpath -- so if 'java.security.manager' is defined, but empty,  
> we use the default security manager. If non-empty we take the value  
> as a class that extends SecurityManager, and load and instantiate  
> that as the security manager.

This is already how it is currently implemented in Classpath. The code
to instantiate the default or specified security manager lives in
java/lang/ClassLoader.java (for bootstraping reasons).

Regards,
Jeroen