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

If you happen to be using webstart with version-based protocol, there seems to be a bug with this which causes the Permissions attribute warning when it shouldn't. Once we removed the version attributes from our jnlp, and removed the version string from the jar filenames, the Permissions attribute warning went away.

Edit: I found this forum thread which discusses the matter: https://forums.oracle.com/thread/2594060.