[Biojava-l] biojava error

[Mark Schreiber]

In this case then maybe the best solution is to provide a "How to sign
your biojava.jar" page on the wiki.

Possibly it could go into a "How to make a BioJava empowered Applet"
recipe for the cookbook. Does anyone feel motivated to provide a
trivial (or even not so trivial) example?

- Mark

On 6/29/07, Andy Yates <ayates at ebi.ac.uk> wrote:
> 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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> >>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
> >>> Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux)
> >>> Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org
> >>>
> >>> iD8DBQFGg4Pi4C5LeMEKA/QRArpHAJ91uzlAlJ0qeTMiRMtWahdT5TCYVACeKpVh
> >>> 6hY3O3WqoZT85IqqdBBhsXI=
> >>> =3NlO
> >>> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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