Kategorie: osgi

Hey, finally Felix is running with security also 🙂 No big changes needed. As mentioned before the org/apache/felix/org.apache.felix.security/1.4.0/ org.apache.felix.framework.security-1.4.0.jar=1 is neede within the startup config (Equinox didn’t need this one) The custom.properties are setup only contain the org.osgi.framework.security=osgi entry and the system.properties only contain this: java.security.policy=${karaf.base}/etc/all.policy java.security.manager An additional File called security.policy is also added…

After failing the last time I did some more research on how to get the security manager enabled. Lukily I found some discussion about this issue on a mailinglist. I resolved this issue at least with the equinox framework. The Felix didn’t work yet. I will do some more in depth research on this later…

One thing beforehand, calling system.exit from a bundle is evil! But even worse is a third party legacy jar calling system.exit instead of throwing exceptions. Now how do we stop this jar from doing such evil? The only way you can do this is to use a SecurityManager preventing calls to system.exit. Wow!!! Now how…