Signed Java Applets might be broken on Vista

[kmaclean]

see link ​Signed Java Applets broken on Vista

How does this affect an applet?

Operations on the file system and the registry are redirected to virtual stores using virtualization. So, when a process running inside IE (such as a Java applet) tries to create a file called say C:\Users\hrish\test.txt (assuming C is the system root drive) the file would actually get redirected to C:\Users\hrish\AppData?\Local\VirtualStore?\test.txt.

So,

File f = new File(”C:\\Users\\hrish\\test.txt”);
boolean b = f.createNewFile();//Will succeed.
boolean e = f.exists();//Is true.

String path = f.getAbsolutePath();path will be C:\Users\hrish\test.txt.

But the actual file would be present in C:\Users\hrish\AppData?\Local\VirtualStore?\test.txt

Firefox is not affected by this, because it has no equivalent of protected mode.

But ... the VoxForge? SpeechSubmission applet does not try to get the absolute path of a file ... need to loook into ths further