[jboss-remoting-issues] [JBoss JIRA] Created: (JBREM-959) CLONE [JBREM-920] - Create build.xml target to run test suite with a Security Manager

[Ron Sigal (JIRA)]

CLONE [JBREM-920] - Create build.xml target to run test suite with a Security Manager
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                 Key: JBREM-959
                 URL: http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBREM-959
             Project: JBoss Remoting
          Issue Type: Task
      Security Level: Public (Everyone can see)
            Reporter: Ron Sigal
         Assigned To: David Lloyd
             Fix For: 2.4.0.GA


>From Anil Saldana:

Presuming that you have a test suite and either use ANT or Maven, I
recommend an extra target to run the test suite in a Java Security
Manager with minimal permissions.  So for ANT, you will have an
additional target. For MAVEN, you can use a profile.

The idea is that you have a Java Security Policy file in which you
provide unlimited permission to third party libraries and minimal
permissions to your own code. This exercise is to detect critical
sections of code that need special privileges and get into privileged
blocks.   If you have an extra target for the security manager and your
test runs happen on hudson, you can detect issues with security manager
as new code gets added.

Please do not have one test that does System.setSecurityManager  but run
your entire test suite via the security manager
(-Djava.security.manager  -Djava.security.policy=somefile).

Example:  (Take a look by clicking "Configure" on the LHS)
http://hudson.qa.jboss.com/hudson/job/JBossSX_SecurityManager/
http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/jbossas/projects/security/security-jboss-sx/trunk/pom.xml

Now if your head is spinning or you do not care about security or do not
have the time to do it, please tell me.  I can engage myself, someone
from JBoss Security Team or the QA person handling your project to add a
JIRA issue (and make the build.xml/pom.xml changes for your project).

Why is this important?
* Because many customers run JBAS in a security manager and we need to
detect issues in our own code.  Also during a recent integration work
with JBoss Messaging for the SOA platform, there was one issue with
remoting (JBREM-811) that gave some head ache to Clebert and Ron (who is
still reeling). It took some cycles from me also.
* We need to have tests running in a security manager on an ongoing basis.

I understand that there are resource issues in various projects. But
that does not discount the work that we need to do before we ship JBAS. ;) 

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