[1489] in java-interest
Re: Third Party Library Loading
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Lorton)
Wed Sep 6 02:44:27 1995
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 1995 19:40:11 -0700
From: Michael Lorton <mlorton@eshop.com>
To: java-interest@java.sun.com
In-Reply-To: <9509020029.AA00937@claudius.viman.com> (gandalf@viman1.viman.com)
> Guess I should give an example of what I was thinking about. XYZ Corp
> develops the Neato Virtual Reality Card (NVRC), which lets you use a
> full featured VR headset. You want to make an app that uses a VR
> headset through the NVR Card. Right now you'd have to make native
> methods that would interact with the device drvier, and anyone who
> wanted to use your applet to do VR stuff would have to download the
> native method files and install it on their computer. This is both
> inconvienient and poses a security risk, since the native methods can
> do anything.
Yes, you would need JavaOS (or something close), so that you could
write the device-driver in Java.
M.
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