Re: OS/400 Java JRE and Java.Security

["Franco Biaggi" <fbiaggi@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Shannon,
I thnik that if you are runnin java from a PC, nothing of the java AS400 
definitions are readed, only from your PC.
Hope this helps
Ciao

On Tue, 8 Jul 2003 13:36:13 -0500, Shannon O'Donnell wrote:

>OK....bear with me....my AS/400 Java programming skills and understanding is
>about equivalent to a 1930's auto-mechanic working on a 2003 Subaru WRX...so
>I'm still trying to figure it all out....

>On my Win2K PC...I've set up my Java Environment with the Java 1.3.03
>Runtime Environment installed.  That created a directory structure below
>\Program Files\JavaSoft\Jre\1.3.1_03\lib\security\  and this is the location
>of the "java.security" file I have to modify to communicate with a Verisign
>java class that authorizes a credit card number for me.   That's fine and
>all works great.

>When I move all this to the AS/400,  I can call the verisign class and it
>finds it and all that (I'm calling it from a CL program, by the way...).
>The problem is though that the authorization fails because the Java RUNTIME
>java.security file does not contain the list of security providers for
>Verisign.

>Now...and here's my question (finally!)....on OS/400.....I have the
>directory structure /QIBM/ProdData/Java400/JDK13/lib/security with the
>java.security file in it. However, since this is the JDK, and not the
>JRE...I'm guessing that I"m using the wrong security file.  What is the
>OS/400 equivalent directory structure to my Windows JRE directory structure?

>Let me know if I need to clarify that question.  It sounded good before it
>came out in print on this email :-) but it got a little fuzzy between my
>brain and the keyboard!

>Thanks





>Shannon O'Donnell

>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "David Morris" <David.Morris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <java400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 1:23 PM
>> Subject: Re: Determining Which JVM is running on OS/400
>>
>>
>> > Shannon,
>> >
>> > You can set the version through a SystemDefault.properties file, or by
>> >
>> > specifying a property when you start java with -Djava.version=1.x.
>> > You should only need to manipulate your classpath to add things like
>> > the tools.jar or some other optional part of the JDK.
>> >
>> > To get the current version you might try something like:
>> >
>> > String version = System.getProperty("java.version");
>> >
>> > David Morris
>> >
>> > >>> sodonnell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 7/7/2003 11:48:25 AM >>>
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Probably a dumb question....
>> >
>> >
>> > I have three JDK's on my V5R1 system (JDK118,  JDK12, JDK13). How do I
>> > determine which JDK is being used? By what I set in the CLASSPATH,
>> > right?
>> >
>> > The reason I ask....is because I'm using some software from Verisign to
>> > do a
>> > Credit Card authorization from the AS/400.  One of the things I need to
>> > do
>> > is to set the security provider(s), in my java.security file under the
>> > /QIBM/ProdData/Java400/jdk13/lib/security/java.security
>> >
>>
>or..../QIBM/ProdData/Java400/jdk12/lib/security/java.security.....or...../QI
>> > BM/ProdData/Java400/jdk118/lib/security/java.security .
>> >
>> > I've set this information in all three versions of that file (the
>> > "shotgun"
>> > approach to programming...) and yet, when I run the app, I still get
>> > an
>> > error telling me that the security informaiton (that specific
>> > information)
>> > has not yet been set.
>> >
>> > So...I'm wondering if the reason it can't see my updates to the
>> > java.security file is due to a CLASSPATH problem, or possibly
>> > something
>> > else.
>> >
>> > I know this is probably vague...but hoping for a suggestion or two I
>> > might
>> > try anyway!
>> >
>> > Thanks!
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Shannon O'Donnell
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