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Security Manager is one of the only unique selling points of Java, to remove it (without removing it because you need it underneath) is as big of a blunder as removing Applets from browsers and replacing it with something worse: WASM without GC and then adding GC to WASM...

If SVTwP is not better than NIO; Java ends with JDK 23.

> Warnings issued in JDK 17–23 generated minimal discussion in the Java ecosystem

Because no feature added after 1.8 made sense, so nobody upgraded. They are taking decisions off the wrong data.

> they are encouraged to transition to alternative sandboxing and API interception mechanisms

Feel free to link to anything useful!

parent bullen 1 year ago

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