Legality of modifying and distributing the JRE
- by herpylderp
I see that Google App Engine apps run on a so-called secured sandbox JRE; that is, a JRE that Google modified and that makes changes to certain JRE types. This is how GAE prevents developers from writing apps that can do things like:
Access the local file system via File
Make remote JDBC calls
Use JNDI
Lots of other restrictions
We have a…