I2JAV11 — 2 IDL->Java issues on the singleton ORB (02)

Summary: How is an ORB to determine whether or not it is in an
applet context? The nearest that I can see is to check for the presence
of a SecurityManager. If we are in an applet context, then there is a
SecurityManager present, but the inverse (that the presence of a
SecurityManager implies that we are in an applet) is not true. It is
however the case that whenever a SecurityManager is present, potentially
untrusted code is present, so the same constraints on the singleton ORB
are probably appropriate. Therefore, I propose that the specification be
changed to state that if System.getSecurityManager() returns a non-null
result, the singeton ORB should be constrained to creating TypeCodes and
Anys.

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