Sun Microsystems 1.2 manual Program Management

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Program Management

Office (PMO) The administrative structure that implements the Java Community Process (JCP) program.

protected API APIs that require that an applet have permission to access them. An attempt to use a protected API without the necessary permissions cause a security exception error.

protection domain A set of permissions that control which protected APIs an applet can use.

Reference

Implementation (RI) The prototype or proof of concept implementation of a Java specification. All new or revised specifications must include an RI. A specification RI must pass all of the TCK tests for that specification.

second-level appeals

process Allows technology implementors who are not satisfied with a first-level appeal decision to appeal the decision. See also appeals process and first-level appeals process.

security domain A set of permissions that define what an application is allowed to do in relationship to restricted APIs and secure communications.

security policy The set of permissions that a technology implementation or Application Programming Interface (API) requires an application to have for the application to access the implementation or API.

signature file A text representation of the set of public features provided by an API that is part of a finished TCK. It is used as a signature reference during the TCK signature test for comparison to the technology implementation under test.

signature test Checks that all the necessary API members are present and that there are no extra members that illegally extend the API. It compares the API being tested with a reference API and confirms if the API being tested and the reference API are mutually binary compatible.

specification See Java specification.

standard values A configuration value used by the JavaTest harness to determine which tests in the test suite to run and how to run them. The user can change standard values using either the all values or standard values view in the Configuration Editor.

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