Sun this week invited its Java developer community to test a new security technology that it will integrate into the upcoming Java Standard Edition 6 software, which is due to be released next summer.

The verifier checks data access routes to ensure application safety and prevent entrusted code from infiltrating before a Java application is run by a Java Virtual Machine, Sun said.

The Java virtual machine embodies a verifier that performs a set of checks on Java bytecode programs before their execution. The verifier carries out an efficient data-flow analysis applied to a ...

The verifier checks data access routes to ensure application safety andprevent entrusted code from infiltrating before a Java application isrun by a Java Virtual Machine, Sun said.

According to Sun, the new Java verifier technology checks data-accessroutes to ensure application safety and to prevent untrusted code frominfiltrating before a Java application is run by the Java ...