> The security manager was removed as no one used it well or found it useful. That's as much an indictment of the Security Manager than anything else. ;-) > E

> The security manager was removed as no one used it well or found it useful. That's as much an indictment of the Security Manager than anything else. ;-) > Every one of these features were added because they were useful to java developers. Which creates a requirement in my mind that removing those features needs to be justified by adding more benefit than they take out, but it is entirely possible that those features were the best way to address the needs of Java developers. The reality is that Java is no longer seen has being a high integrity runtime anymore, so nobody uses it that way. The use cases for a high integrity runtime haven't gone away though.