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From: vdelvecc@mesmer.camb.inmet.com (Vince Del Vecchio)
Subject: Re: AppletMagic and the annexes
Date: 1996/05/22
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>>>>> On 22 May 1996 22:57:44 +0200,
    pautet@email.enst.fr (Laurent Pautet) said:

> The rules concerning the use of sockets in Applets are very
> restrictive. Implementing the distributed system annex in such a
> context does not seem to be a trivial thing to me.

It would make sense, however, in applications (not applets) run
standalone on a JVM, or perhaps with a somehow loosened security
model.  But you are right, with things the way they are now, you
could probably not do much useful work inside an applet.

-Vincent Del Vecchio
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