Copy Paste Applet

[blingo james]

Greeting all.

I've been working on some applet that uses
Clipboard to paste data to other programs in the system.

I've been using the Eclipse enviorment.
so everything works fine on Eclipse, but when I planet the Applet
inside .html, the Applet doesn't work and on Java Console I see

java.security.AccessControlException: access denied (java.awt.AWTPermission accessClipboard) ...

The problematic line in my code seem to be:

Clipboard clipboard = getToolkit().getSystemClipboard();

Is something can be done?
The purpose is that the Applet will work for the regaler user without
having to tweak the user's Java security options...

Many Thanks.

[Ulf Dittmer]

Welcome to JavaRanch.

If you can't (or don't want to) fiddle with the user's setup you'll have to sign the applet. Then the user only has to accept your certificate, and that's it. See HowCanAnAppletReadFilesOnTheLocalFileSystem for more detail.

[blingo james]

Thanks,
Will look into it...

[blingo james]

It worked,
After looking at the above,
I've used http://ww2.cs.fsu.edu/~steele/SECURITY/appletSecurity.html

From what I understand,
every time an applet do something that has to do with security,
it needs to be signed, is that correct?

[blingo james]

Another thing, wasn't sure if to ask it here or open a new thread,
I've used keytool once to create a certificate, just to see if it works
by

keytool -genkey -dname "cn=Trusted Developer" -validity 365 -storepass SecretStorePassword -keypass SecretKeyPassword

now I want to create a new certificate that will contain other information than cn=Trusted Developer but I can't, it writes stuff like:

keytool error: java.io.IOException: Keystore was tampered with, or password was incorrect

What should I do?

Many thanks.

[Ulf Dittmer]

From what I understand, every time an applet do something that has to do with security, it needs to be signed, is that correct?[/QB]

Yes. A (possibly incomplete) list of what that means can be found in section 2 at http://www.securingjava.com/chapter-two/

keytool error: java.io.IOException: Keystore was tampered with, or password was incorrect

Make sure you delete the old keystore before creating a new one.

[blingo james]

Worked.
Thanks, You guys are the best.