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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 25, 2004
Filed:
May. 10, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:
William J. Raduchel, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Glenn C. Scott, Mountain View, CA (US);
Timothy G. Lindholm, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Assignee:
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/200 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/200 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for ensuring that code being executed by a data processing system conforms to a platform standard. As an example, one embodiment of the present invention validates Pure Java platform standard conformance of Java programs downloaded from a remote server to ensure that they conform to the “Pure Java” standard. This checking can be performed at the time that the program is downloaded across a network firewall and/or at one or more times during the loading and execution of the program.