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Foil 56 What can applets do - III?

From Basic Principles of Java and Internet Security CPS616 Web Technologies -- Spring 98. by Geoffrey C. Fox


1 Applets cannot make the interpreter exit through either System.exit() or Runtime.exit() methods.
2 Applets cannot load dynamic libraries on the client using load() or loadlibrary() methods of the Runtime or System classes
3 Applets cannot create or manipulate any thread that is not part of same ThreadGroup as the applet.
4 Applet cannot create a ClassLoader or SecurityManager
5 Applet cannot specify network control functions including ContentHandlerFactory, SocketImplFactory or URLStreamHandlerFactory
6 Applet cannot define classes that are part of built in client side packages

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