Subject Re: [Firebird-Architect] External engines - metadata
Author Adriano dos Santos Fernandes
Roman Rokytskyy escreveu:
>> If Java security manager may give disk access permissions to classes
>> by its name, why do we need to integrate (read - re-invent) this functionality
>> into FB ?
>>
Vlad, we didn't need to reinvent anything.

We just need a way to configure Java security though the database,
instead of editing JVM configuration files.

>
> I'd say we don't need to worry about this topic a lot, I can't think
> about a scenario that Java plugin can't handle provided it has some
> configuration (I'd prefer to have a system table for it with write
> access to database owner, but a file on a disk is also ok).
System table = plugin table, right?

I would like to have plugin functions to manipulate these tables.

Note that all this could be done in a second version of the plugin, if
by default we ship the first plugin version configured to a restricted
environment, similar to applets.


Adriano