Comparison of Java and .NET security

prostoalex writes "The Computer Science Department at the University of Virginia has published a comparative study of security in Java and .NET in Portable Document Format. DevMktg blog on MSDN summarizes the findings saying that due to careful design process, .NET presents security advantages over Java platform in several areas." From the article: "Where Java evolved from an initial platform with limited security capabilities, .NET incorporated more security capability into its original design. With age and new features, much of the legacy code of Java still remains for backwards compatibility including the possibility of a null SecurityManager, and the absolute trust of classes on the bootclasspath. Hence, in several areas .NET has security advantages over Java because of its simpler and cleaner design."

Comments

Re:.NET? Is this thing still around?

[ars matica]

Dynamical? Wow, and the rest of your post was so intelligent and cohesive, I would have never guessed you were full of **** until I came across this word.

Re:hardly objective

[bwoodring]

Im not going to read the article

Then why don't you just shut the fuck up?

Re:Yeay! Security plus portability minus cost...

[m50d]

Java is more than a bit clumsy. Java programs are intolerably slow on my 800mhz machine, and I can't justify an upgrade just for Java when everything else works fine on it.

Also, you neglect the greatest advantage of .net: You can write in lots of nice languages for it, wheras Java afaik only has Java and Ruby.