checkPermission without SecurityException?

[Johan Nagels]

Is there a way to check for a permission without running the risk of an Exception being thrown?
I would like to be able to check the permissions and change the GUI accordingly, but I don't like the idea of catching a lot of Exceptions.

Johan

[Ulf Dittmer]

You could encapsulate the checking and try/catch in a method which just returns a boolean. The SecurityManager.checkPermission(Permission) method would help with this.

[Johan Nagels]

Thanks for the reply.
But that's what I would like to avoid: creating the exception takes up unnecessary cpu. I would prefer to have a method that does not cause/use an excaption at all.

[Ulf Dittmer]

You could perform those checks once at startup, and store the results as booleans for later use.