Security

    Aside from platform independence, discussed in the previous chapter, the other major technical challenge a network-oriented software technology must deal with is security. Networks, because they allow computers to share data and distribute processing, can potentially serve as a way to break into a computer system, enabling someone to steal information, alter or destroy information, or steal computing resources. As a consequence, connecting a computer to a network raises many security issues.

   To address the security concerns raised by networks, Java's architecture comes with an extensive built- in security model, which has evolved with each major release of the Java Platform. This chapter gives an overview of the security model built into Java's core architecture and traces its evolution.

      Java平台除了与操作系统的无相关性，它所面对的主要挑战就是在面对网络时的安全性问题。计算机网络使计算机与计算机之间能够共享数据和分布式处理数据。计算机网络的这种能力也使得计算机系统被破坏，计算机信息被窃取，修改或销毁数据，系统资源被占用。因此，计算机连接网络会出现较多安全问题。
     为了解决Java平台在网络中令人关注的问题，在每次Java平台发布的同时，它的架构中都带有可扩展的内置安全模型.下面就是Java核心架构中内置的安全模型及其演化作一个概览