Policy

Class Policy

Deprecated.

as of JDK version 1.4 -- Replaced by java.security.Policy. java.security.Policy has a method:

public PermissionCollection getPermissions
          (java.security.ProtectionDomain pd)
and ProtectionDomain has a constructor:
public ProtectionDomain
          (CodeSource cs,
           PermissionCollection permissions,
           ClassLoader loader,
           Principal[] principals)
These two APIs provide callers the means to query the Policy for Principal-based Permission entries.

@Deprecated
public abstract class Policy
extends Object

This is an abstract class for representing the system policy fo