Method and apparatus for selective execution of a computer program

摘要

A method and apparatus for ensuring that code being executed by a data processing system conforms to a platform standard. As an example, one embodiment of the present invention validates Pure Java platform standard conformance of Java programs downloaded from a remote server to ensure that they conform to the "Pure Java" standard. This checking can be performed at the time that the program is downloaded across a network firewall and/or at one or more times during the loading and execution of the program.