Deployment descriptor parsing of META-INF/permissions.xml --------------------------------------------------------- Key: AS7-6577 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AS7-6577 Project: Application Server 7 Issue Type: Sub-task Components: Security Reporter: Anil Saldhana Assignee: Stefan Guilhen Fix For: 8.0.0.Alpha1 EE 6.2.2.6 Permission declarations must be stored in META-INF/permissions.xml file within an EJB, web, or application client archive in order for them to be located and subsequently processed by the deployment machinery of the Java EE Product. The permissions for a library are the same as the permissions for the code that EE.6.2.2.6.2 Permission Declaration Example <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <permissions> <permission> <classname>java.io.FilePermission</classname> <name>/tmp/abc</name> <actions>read,write</actions> </permission> <permission> <classname>java.lang.RuntimePermission</classname> <name>createClassLoader</name> </permission> </permissions> The EE7 spec draft has a schema for permissions.xml