Recently added access to System.getProperties and when we run as a java webstart (with full security permissions) I am seeing

java.security.AccessControlException: access denied (java.util.PropertyPermission timestamp read)      
at java.security.AccessControlContext.checkPermission(AccessControlContext.java:269)   
at java.security.AccessController.checkPermission(AccessController.java:401)   
at java.lang.SecurityManager.checkPermission(SecurityManager.java:524) 
at java.lang.SecurityManager.checkPropertyAccess(SecurityManager.java:1276)    
at java.lang.System.getProperty(System.java:573)       
at com.gs.mac.eval.JWSTestStatics.getTimestamp(JWSTestStatics.java:5)  
at dump.evaluate(Unknown Source)       
at com.gs.mac.eval.JWSTest.main(JWSTest.java:31)       
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) 
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)       
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)       
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)    
at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.executeApplication(Unknown Source)  
at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.executeMainClass(Unknown Source)    
at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.continueLaunch(Unknown Source)      
at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.handleApplicationDesc(Unknown Source)       
at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.handleLaunchFile(Unknown Source)     at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.run(Unknown Source) 
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:534)

Jel 9.11 works fine running as a native program
All jars are signed and java WS is admitting that I have all-permissions

Java Web Start 1.2 Console, started Fri Oct 05 13:12:20 EDT 2007
Java 2 Runtime Environment: Version 1.4.2_13 by Sun Microsystems Inc.
Permission requested for: file:/C:/temp/javaws/cache/http/Dnhdtdsa01.ny.fw.gs.com/P8080/RMJWSTest.jar
Found certificate chain of length 2 in codesource
Found certificate chain of length 2 in cache
adding all-permissions object
Permission requested for: file:/C:/temp/javaws/cache/http/Dnhdtdsa01.ny.fw.gs.com/P8080/RMjel.jar
Found certificate chain of length 2 in codesource
Found certificate chain of length 2 in cache
adding all-permissions object

Work great w/o the system.getProperty()

Is this related to the custom class loader? Do I need to add System as a static lib?

package com.gs.mac.eval;
import gnu.jel.CompiledExpression;
import gnu.jel.Evaluator;
import gnu.jel.Library;

import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.Toolkit;
import java.awt.event.WindowAdapter;
import java.awt.event.WindowEvent;

import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JScrollPane;
import javax.swing.JTextArea;

public class JWSTest {
        private static String version = "1.2";
        public static void main(String[] args) throws Throwable {
                String expr = "getTimestamp()";
                // Set up the library
                Class[] staticLib = new Class[1];
                staticLib[0] = JWSTestStatics.class;
                Library lib = new Library(staticLib, null, null, null);
                lib.markStateDependent("getTimestamp", null);
                CompiledExpression c = Evaluator.compile(expr, lib);
                String s = (String) c.evaluate(null);
                System.out
                                .println("This is version " + JWSTest.version + " (the timestamp value is "
                                                + System.getProperty("timestamp") + ")" + System.getProperty("line.separator")

                                                + System.getProperties());
                JFrame frame = new JFrame();
                Dimension d = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getScreenSize();
                frame.setTitle("JWSTest version " + JWSTest.version);
                frame.setSize(d.width * 3 / 4, d.height * 3 / 4);
                frame.setLocation(d.width / 8, d.height / 8);
                frame.addWindowListener(new WindowAdapter() {
                        public void windowClosing(WindowEvent e) {
                                System.exit(0);
                        }
                });
                JTextArea textArea = new JTextArea(20, 60);
                textArea
                                .setText("This is version " + JWSTest.version + " (the timestamp value is "
                                                + System.getProperty("timestamp") + ")" + System.getProperty("line.separator")

                                                + System.getProperties());
                JScrollPane scrollPane = new JScrollPane(textArea);
                frame.getContentPane().add(scrollPane);
                frame.setVisible(true);
        }
}

package com.gs.mac.eval;

public class JWSTestStatics {
        public static String getTimestamp() {
                return System.getProperty("timestamp");
        }

}

I have a 3+ year old jel jar file. How can I determine what version of the source it was built from? Nothing obvious from the jar file...

It was entered into our cvs system on August 23, 2005 so it is at least that old (more likely from 2003)

Thanx

Jack Chappelear