17 Feb
2005
17 Feb
'05
7:47 p.m.
On Thursday 17 February 2005 11:44 am, Brian Kelsay wrote:
Support system also is supposed to mean sandbox. If the java applet crashes then the VM should recover itself and not take the hosting OS down with it. I can't guarantee that is the reality of it or the way it works, but my understanding of it.
Which is great if you're developing and debugging software, but shouldn't be necessary in the "real world". True, it would be nice to be protected from stupid programmers in the "real world" too, but not at the expense of installing and running a whole OS layer.