Using Security manager to prevent public method access

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I had once come across a post that said that we can use the SecurityManager to restrict certain classes from calling a public method of another class. How do we do that?

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:46

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You could have at least linked to the answer, and then said more clearly, what you don't understand. So, I will link for you to my answer to a similar question from yesterday.

If something still is not clear, comment on this answer.

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answered Mar 31 '11 at 13:01

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 31 '11 at 11:24

Perhaps they are thinking of hiding packages hierarchies from classes loaded by other class loaded through the package.access security property. See Guidelines 1-1a of the Secure Coding Guidelines for the Java Programming Language, Version 3.0. Other than that, if a class cannot see a ClassLoader (by any means!) then they will not be able to interact with classes of that class loader.

Using Security manager to prevent public method access

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