[Biojava-l] biojava error

[Andreas Prlic]

we could provide an ant task that would sign it and the default would  
be not to have it signed.

Andreas


On 29 Jun 2007, at 09:49, Mark Schreiber wrote:

> 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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Andreas Prlic      Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
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