Jalapa

Securing Java with Local Policies

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What is Jalapa?

Jalapa is an extension to the security model of Java, that allows for specifying, analysing and enforcing history-based usage policies. Programmers can sandbox an untrusted piece of code with a policy, enforced at run-time through its local scope.


Documentation

The following documentation is available about Jalapa:

The following publications describe the underlying theory of Jalapa:


Code modifications

Code modifications must be done through the Subversion repository. You can check out the repository through svn as follows:

svn co https://jalapa.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/jalapa jalapa

Jalapa can be run by any Java Runtime Environment, starting from version 1.5. To download the latest JRE, check out java.sun.com.


Disclaimer

Copyright (C) 2008.

For comments and suggestions: piersushi at users.sourceforge.net

Jalapa comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; see the GNU General Public License for details.