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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > >>>> > >>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>>> -- > >>>> Sick sense of humor? Visit Yahoo! TV's Comedy with an Edge > >>>> <http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=47093/*http://tv.yahoo.com/collections/ > >>>> 222>to > >>>> see what's on, when. > >>> -----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----- > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Biojava-l mailing list - [email protected] > >>> http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/biojava-l > >>> > >>> > >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> > >> Andreas Prlic Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute > >> Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, UK > >> +44 (0) 1223 49 6891 > >> > >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is operated by Genome Research > >> Limited, a charity registered in England with number 1021457 and a > >> company registered in England with number 2742969, whose registered > >> office is 215 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE. > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Biojava-l mailing list - [email protected] > >> http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/biojava-l > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > Biojava-l mailing list - [email protected] > > http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/biojava-l > _______________________________________________ Biojava-l mailing list - [email protected] http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/biojava-l
