Re: Accessing Microsoft Outlook from a Java applet

From: Silvio Bierman (sbierman_at_idfix.nl)
Date: 02/23/04 

Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 10:23:01 +0100

"Daniel Pope" <daniel-po@shaw.ca> wrote in message
news:Kic_b.596468$ts4.236102@pd7tw3no...
> Thanks for your hints Silvio. So, I have to write a dll (C++) to access
> Outlook or windows registry using COM calls.
> For what I need (getting and setting only Outlook accounts) seems that
> dealing with windows registry is enough.
> What do you mean by "applet must to be signed"? Does it mean a kind of
> certification that the user can see and after approve to allow the applets
> perform enhanced security tasks?
>
> Kind regards,
> Daniel
>

Daniel,

I hint at first : it is usually preferred by newsgroupreaders that you not
toppost, meaning that you put your response at the bottom of the message.

Signing an applet depends on which environment you want it to run in. Look
at http://mindprod.com/jgloss/signedapplets.html for info on this (got this
link from Google just now, there are many more references).
It basically links a certificate to your applets that tells users who wrote
the thing (and could be sued if it shows malicious conduct). If the
certificate is backed up by Verisign and the like (think $$) then it will
run without confirmation from users by default. If not (you can cook your
own certificate) users will by default be prompted whether they want the
applet to run. Either way the applet gets extended permissions to do things
"normal" applets can not do like accessing the local file system, running
native code, doing unrestricted network-IO, accessing ports etc.

Hope this helps,

Regards,

Silvio Bierman

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