Permission Directive

Description

Declaration of a security permission.

Nested Elements

Element Occurance Description
action 0..n The action descriptor.

Attributes

Attribute Required Description
class yes The name of the Permission class. This classname must be a subclass of the java.security.Permission class.
name no This is the first argument passed into the constructor. Most Permission classes calls this the "name" argument, but the has other names for certain permission classes, e.g. FilePermission calls it "path".

Example XML 

    <permission class="java.lang.RuntimePermission" name="getClassLoader" />
    <permission class="java.util.PropertyPermission" name="java.*" >
      <action>read</action>
    </permission>
    <permission class="java.util.PropertyPermission" name="org.apache.*" >
      <action>read</action>
      <action>write</action>
    </permission>