Double-Plus Good

I’ve been following the JDNC project recently and along the way mentioned that it might be nice to combine the authorization dialogs for WebStart applications that have multiple jars signed by different certs into a single dialog to make it more user friendly. Mark Davidson who seems to work at Sun (I assume on the Swing team) promptly responded that he’d spoken to a WebStart engineer about it, logged an RFE for me and said the WebStart guy was going to talk to the security guys about it during the week. That’s of course no guarantee that it will actually be implemented anytime soon (or any time at all) but it’s nice to at least know that the message got through. Particularly impressive is the fact that I wasn’t even trying to get a message through, just spouting ideas off the top of my head. It’s generally been very good to see the Sun engineers working to involve the community on JDNC, I had initially thought that JDNC would be a “token” opensource project where Sun employees still control everything but make the source code available. I’m very glad to say that I was wrong about that, there is definitely a strong effort being made to get people involved and already a number of knowledgeable folks from outside are getting involved and providing some very good advice.