On 12 Apr 2012, at 17:46, Pushpalanka Jayawardhana wrote:

> Hi Scott,
> 
> Thought it will be better to keep this thread  updated on the progress I
> made.


Great! Thanks for the updates - it makes sense to keep the thread going.

> 
> Meanwhile I looked into the widget code and possible implementation of
> verifying function. I placed a sample signature file inside a .wgt and
> tried to access it inside Wookie. Inside W3CWidgetFactory class of parser
> could get into the signature file with
> *unzippedWidgetDirectory.getCanonicalPath() + File.separator +
> "signature.xml".* Identification can be done,considering the naming
> conventions in the spec for authors and distributors, when more signatures
> are present.
> *
> *
> As next step, I hope to look at how the decision of verification function
> can take effect in deploying the .wgt at Wookie and taken into
> other higher levels. Working on this is becoming more interesting now.

Yes, as W3CWidgetFactory is the front API for the parser lib - for both the 
Wookie server and other W3C implementations reusing it - so it needs to have 
easy to understand/well documented method signatures so poses more of a design 
challenge.

> 
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> University of Moratuwa
> 
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