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Asked: 2026-06-12T18:47:23+00:00

I want to ship a single security policy file to our customers – for

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I want to ship a single security policy file to our customers – for both Linux and Windows. In the java.security file, I add a line to point to our file, but due to path differences I have to specify it differently for Windows and Linux

policy.url.3=file:/${our.home}/lib/OurSecurity.policy  # Windows
policy.url.3=file:${our.home}/lib/OurSecurity.policy   # Linux

That first “/” after the “file:” is needed on windows since the variable our.home is defined as “C:\foo”. I have the same problem in the policy file itself:

grant codeBase "file:/${our.home}/-"   // Windows
grant codeBase "file:${our.home}/-"    // Linux

I’m especially looking for a clever way to specify the codeBase in a platform independent way. By the way, redefining our.home is not really an option, as it’s needed in a FilePermission clause.

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  1. Editorial Team

    If it were me, I would accept the fact that I needed different files and generate the linux version from the windows version by having a script to remove the “/”.

    However if you really need to use the same file, you could swap one pain for another by just defining another environment variable to represent the “/” on windows and have it blank on linux.

    # our.hack = "/" on windows
# our.hack = "" on linux
policy.url.3=file:${our.hack}${our.home}/lib/OurSecurity.policy

    Perhaps our.hack is not the best name in a production environment, but you get the idea. The variable is not used for anything else, so should not interfere with the rest of the app.

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