[visad] Applet in VisAD [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

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• Subject: [visad] Applet in VisAD [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
• From: Geoff Freeman <grf@xxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:14:11 +0000 (GMT)

Hi All,

I have had trouble making an applet using VisAD. So I did the following.

I got an example Applet from
  http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~curtis/applet/VisADApplet.java

When I ran this with appletviewer I got the following
for various releases of VisAD.

visad release DATE: Wed Feb 17 12:39:34 CST 2010
java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
        at VisADApplet.init(VisADApplet.java:17)
        at sun.applet.AppletPanel.run(AppletPanel.java:380)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)
Caused by: java.security.AccessControlException: access denied 
(java.util.PropertyPermission visad.actionimpl.tracetime read)
        at 
java.security.AccessControlContext.checkPermission(AccessControlContext.java:264)
        at 
java.security.AccessController.checkPermission(AccessController.java:427)
        at java.lang.SecurityManager.checkPermission(SecurityManager.java:532)
        at 
java.lang.SecurityManager.checkPropertyAccess(SecurityManager.java:1285)
        at java.lang.System.getProperty(System.java:662)
        at visad.ActionImpl.<clinit>(ActionImpl.java:83)
        ... 3 more

visad release DATE: Wed Mar 18 10:43:04 CDT 2009 (slightly different)
java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
        at VisADApplet.init(VisADApplet.java:17)
        at sun.applet.AppletPanel.run(AppletPanel.java:380)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)
Caused by: java.security.AccessControlException: access denied 
(java.util.PropertyPermission visad.java3d.geometryByRef read)
        at 
java.security.AccessControlContext.checkPermission(AccessControlContext.java:264)
        at 
java.security.AccessController.checkPermission(AccessController.java:427)
        at java.lang.SecurityManager.checkPermission(SecurityManager.java:532)
        at 
java.lang.SecurityManager.checkPropertyAccess(SecurityManager.java:1285)
        at java.lang.System.getProperty(System.java:662)
        at visad.java3d.DisplayImplJ3D.<clinit>(DisplayImplJ3D.java:162)
        ... 3 more

visad release DATE: Wed 10/04/2006 12:21:34.44
The applet works.


Any ideas?

Cheers

Geoff


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