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Date of Patent:
Jan. 15, 2008

Filed:

Jan. 23, 2003
Applicants:

Shivakumar Govindarajapuram, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Rajesh Kanungo, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Inventors:

Shivakumar Govindarajapuram, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Rajesh Kanungo, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Assignee:

Sun Microsystems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/44 (2006.01); G06F 15/173 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method for controlling access to deprecated methods of an implementation is provided. The method includes receiving a request to access a method that has been marked as deprecated and building a call stack for the request. Also included is inspecting the call stack to determine if the request is from an application outside of the implementation. The method further includes acting on the request in accordance with a control policy defined by a pluggable policy.


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