Java in libraries?

[Stan Kasper]

Karen,

I would like to see more talk about JAVA and 'security'.  How
does one provide 'virus protection' against a JAVA app?  How
does one prevent a JAVA app from reading 'private' information
on the local machine and downloading it somewhere else?

-Stan


> Date:          Thu, 7 Dec 1995 21:12:13 -0800
> Reply-to:      web4lib at library.berkeley.edu
> From:          kschneid at umich.edu (Karen G. Schneider)
> To:            Multiple recipients of list <web4lib at library.berkeley.edu>
> Subject:       Java in libraries?

> Other technozealotry aside, a few weeks ago my editor at American Libraries
> asked me what I wanted to do for February and I replied, let's do the
> programming language, Java--it's new and hot, and it would be fun to have
> AL be one of the first places to write about it!  To my complete
> astonishment, and also to my distress, my editor loves the idea.
> 
> So is your library doing anything with Java?  How about you personally?  Do
> you think it is cool?  Are you mystified by it? Do we need to know it?
> Will it change the 'net?  Will it change us?  Can we afford its
> implications?  Do you know of an easy book on Java?  Do you prefer
> full-strength or decaf?
> 
> Send these and any other comments related to Java to me at
> kschneid at umich.edu, and I'll try to write something fun and very different
> for my February column.
> 
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