[Biojava-l] biojava error

[Andy Yates]

Hey,

Normally digitally signing a jar can cause problems for people who want 
to uncompress our jar & re-compress into a distribution for themselves 
(a one shot executable jar scenario). Applets are very strange as I'm 
sure it's possible to load resources from the server and applet is 
created from (I did it ages ago for an applet which worked with blast 
output). So it's a bit of a shock that the applet sandbox doesn't allow 
us to call a getResourceAsStream() method (well I say surprise ... it 
doesn't really).

It's probably not a bad thing to offer a digitally signed version of the 
JAR for people wanting to use it in applets but if the main distribution 
could continue with unsigned JARs I think that would be the best.

Andy

Mark Schreiber wrote:
> Hi -
> 
> Is there any reason why we shouldn't digitally sign the biojava.jar as
> part of our distribution? It would save other people doing it.
> 
> I think we would just use a self generated certificate as a third
> party one is expensive and doesn't really proove anything anyway.
> 
> Just a thought,
> 
> - Mark
> 
> On 6/28/07, Andreas Prlic <ap3 at sanger.ac.uk> wrote:
>> Did you try signing your applet using jarsigner?
>>
>> e.g. see
>> http://www.raditha.com/java/sandbox/index.php
>>
>> Andreas
>>
>>
>>> Kavita Agarwal wrote:
>>>> hi!
>>>>
>>>> I have downloaded the latest version of biojava and i have included
>>>> all
>>>> the jar files in the
>>>>
>>>> (java home)/jre/lib/ext  folder. Problem is that my code runs fine
>>>> when
>>>> I run it in an application but it is not working in the applet.
>>>>
>>>> One thing which I have noticed is that functions defined in DNATools
>>>> are
>>>> static and I am calling a static function from a non-static one , is
>>>> this any bug?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks a lot for ur reply.
>>>>
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