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DateTimeZone should load it's provider in an AccessController.doPrivileged block

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In elasticsearch we run into a testing issue where due to security manager restrictions the default providers could not be loaded. https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/14524 The problem here is really that we can’t grant the jar it’s needed permissions since it doesn’t use a AccessController.doPrivileged block to load the privider in https://github.com/JodaOrg/joda-time/blob/master/src/main/java/org/joda/time/DateTimeZone.java#L483 I am not sure if there are other places where stuff like this is loaded but there might be

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jodastephencommented, May 27, 2016

Done

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jasontedorcommented, May 27, 2016

Thanks @jodastephen!

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