java mail security Acess Exception in JWS

[msnangare],

2 answers for this problem that you are getting:

Q1. You wrote: "When I use this option my mailing program throws exception: java.security.AcessControlException. But,when I used default jre along with jws2.0 then it works fine."

A1. The default JDK for jws2.0 is v1.1.x. It does not have the Security Manager concept hence that is the reason why you can make SMTP/POP3/IMAP connections to your mail servers from your servlet. For JDK 1.2.x and JDK 1.3.x, the Security Manager concepts are there, hence that is why the virtual machine is spilling out the java.security.AcessControlException errors.

To resolve this issue, you will have follow this procedure of giving permission to the VM to make SMTP connections:

(1) Look into the directory c:\<Java Web Server 2.0 home dir>\security

(2) There should be a file named "jserv.policy"

(3) Make a backup copy of this file first, then edit the file.

(4) Add these lines to this file:

grant codeBase "file:${server.root}/tmpdir/-" {

permission java.lang.RuntimePermission "accessClassInPackage.sun.net.www";

permission java.io.FilePermission "<<ALL FILES>>", "read, write, delete, execute";

permission java.util.PropertyPermission "*", "read, write";

permission java.lang.RuntimePermission "createClassLoader";

permission java.lang.RuntimePermission "modifyThread";

permission java.lang.RuntimePermission "modifyThreadGroup";

permission java.lang.RuntimePermission "readFileDescriptor";

permission java.lang.RuntimePermission "writeFileDescriptor";

permission java.lang.RuntimePermission "loadLibrary.*";

permission java.lang.RuntimePermission "queuePrintJob";

permission java.net.SocketPermission "*", "accept, connect, listen, resolve";

};

(5) Save the file and then restart your jws2.0 webserver. The JVM will pick up the new security policy allowing your servlets to make SMTP connections.

Q2. You wrote: "... starting jws with httpdnojre -javahome c:\jdk1.3 ..."

A2. jws2.0 has only been tested with JVMs up to v1.2.x and hence officially supported for JDK v1.2.x if you are using the external JRE option. Most the code will run with JDK 1.3.x but you may find some peculiar behaviour with this latest version of the JDK.

HTH.

Allen Lai

Developer Technical Support

SUN Microsystems

http://www.sun.com/developers/support/

allenlai at 2007-7-1 19:08:24 >

[msnangare],

There are some additional notes for JavaMail and jws2.0, see URL:

http://java.sun.com/products/javamail/JavaWebServer.html

It contains information of well documented ways of getting JavaMail and jws2.0 to work succesfully and testing it out with the JavaMailServlet app.

I'm using jws2.0 with JavaMail 1.2 but I did not encounter any security exceptions and am running a few servlets that uses the JavaMail APIs to send e-mails out by connecting to a SMTP server.

HTH.

Allen Lai

Developer Technical Support

SUN Microsystems

http://www.sun.com/developers/support/

allenlai at 2007-7-1 19:08:24 >