It is once again my pleasure to announce another release of the Padlock License Manager for Java. This release in particular gives me great joy as it has support for Java 1.5 right out of the box, including the MAC address locking previously only supported with Java 1.6+.
Hardware locking on Java 1.5 is made possible by the addition of a new (and pluggable) MAC address provider implementation. The default uses Java’s built in provisions for acquiring MAC addresses for interfaces in Java 1.6, and drops back to a secondary method for determining addresses when using Java 1.5
For those that want a even more control over determining system MACs, you can simply implement your own provider through the MacAddressProvider interface.
The default provider also screens out several ranges of addresses used by virtual machines in an effort to ignore various types of virtual interfaces.
As usual, please let me know if you’ve got any questions or comments.
Happy Licensing!
Jason Nichols
jason@padlocksoftware.net
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