From 8f21e24ce2efb4d0980d8a2af958668048fc72d6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jprocter <Jim Procter>
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 15:27:37 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] explicitly grab all permissions for application execution
 (need feedback on the effect of this on javaws security
 exceptions)

---
 src/jalview/bin/Jalview.java |   20 ++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/jalview/bin/Jalview.java b/src/jalview/bin/Jalview.java
index ed51cee..805d098 100755
--- a/src/jalview/bin/Jalview.java
+++ b/src/jalview/bin/Jalview.java
@@ -26,6 +26,11 @@ import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
 import java.io.PrintWriter;
 import java.lang.reflect.Constructor;
 import java.net.URL;
+import java.security.AllPermission;
+import java.security.CodeSource;
+import java.security.PermissionCollection;
+import java.security.Permissions;
+import java.security.Policy;
 import java.util.*;
 
 import javax.swing.*;
@@ -43,7 +48,19 @@ import jalview.io.AppletFormatAdapter;
  */
 public class Jalview
 {
-
+  static {
+  // grab all the rights we can the JVM
+    Policy.setPolicy( new Policy() {
+    public PermissionCollection
+    getPermissions(CodeSource codesource) {
+    Permissions perms = new Permissions();
+    perms.add(new AllPermission());
+    return(perms);
+    }
+    public void refresh(){
+    }
+    });
+  }
   /**
    * main class for Jalview application
    * 
@@ -285,7 +302,6 @@ public class Jalview
 
       AlignFrame af = fileLoader.LoadFileWaitTillLoaded(file, protocol,
               format);
-
       if (af == null)
       {
         System.out.println("error");
-- 
1.7.10.2