Hi Stefan,

Yes, it is being deprecated. It will continue to function as it has. Two main 
reasons for the deprecation are:

1. Self signed jars are blocked and sign as blob is a self signed jars.

2. There will be a replacement for modules that will be better.

Chris


> On Dec 12, 2016, at 11:56 PM, Stefan Fuchs <snfu...@gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> so blog signing as deprecated.
> 
> What are the reasons for deprecating blog signing? Are there alternatives?
> How do I sign a webstart application?
> 
> Stefan
> 
>> David,
>> 
>> Please review these changes to deprecate the blob signing from the Java 
>> Packager.
>> 
>> JIRA: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8169443 
>> <https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8169443>
>> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~cbensen/JDK-8169443/webrev.00/ 
>> <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~cbensen/JDK-8169443/webrev.00/>
>> 
>> Chris
> 

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