Any way to avoid changing java.policy?

[Chengwei Lee]

I've an applet that calls a DLL file in the Windows system32 folder. For JRE 5/6, is there a way to avoid doing this? Or is there a better alternative?

    
grant {
  permission java.lang.RuntimePermission "loadLibrary.<mylib>"
};

Using IE 6/7, Windows 2000 Professional and/or Windows XP SP2.

[Ulf Dittmer]

The alternative would be to sign the applet: HowCanAnAppletReadFilesOnTheLocalFileSystem

[Chengwei Lee]

The applet had been signed. It's calling the DLL via JNI. We can't get it to work without the java.policy. Or are we missing something here?

[Ulf Dittmer]

It might be necessary to run the code as privileged code. See HowCanAnAppletReadFilesOnTheLocalFileSystem for how to do that.