Hi,

 

I've seen a couple of webstart-m-p issues which have to do with signing and 
unsigning jars.

 

A few examples (there are a lot more):

http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MWEBSTART-127 : unsignAlreadySignedJars 
sometimes removes manifest information

http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MWEBSTART-132 : Unsigning already signed jars 
doesn't work when libPath used

http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MWEBSTART-138 : The number of signed artifacts 
differ from the number of modified artifacts

http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MWEBSTART-144 : Jar Unsigning Does Not Work

 

For over a year there's a maven plugin especially created to do this task, the 
maven-jarsigner-plugin [1]

For this reason all sign-related actions has been removed from the 
maven-jar-plugin.

 

IMHO I believe we should leave all the signing to this jar. By now it's the 
most logical place and it's far more improved than the webstart-m-p can offer.

I would suggest to close all these signing-related issues and refer to the 
jarsigner-plugin.

A next step would be to remove this feature from the plugin.

 

Any ideas, agreements or disagreements?

 

- Robert

 

 

[1] http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-jarsigner-plugin

 
                                          

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