Warning on Permissions attribute when running an applet with JRE 7u45

Question

I\'ve just upgraded JRE to 7u45, and my applet receives a warning message on start-up, saying \" This application will be blocked in a future Java security update because th

Answer 1

From New security requirements for RIAs in 7u51 (January 2014) in the "Java Platform Group, Product Management blog":

As of 7u51, (January 14, 2014), your RIAs must be updated. [...]

RIAs must contain two things:

1. Code signatures from a trusted authority. [...]

So it would appear that using a self-signed certificate is the problem here.

I think it's clear that a self-signed certificate is not much use as an introduction for an end-user.