[Building Sakai] Automatically signed applet in Samigo

Anthony Whyte arwhyte at umich.edu
Tue Apr 12 05:27:00 PDT 2011


The applet is signed automatically every time Samigo is released or the trunk snapshot is updated.

What version of Samigo are you using that you encountered an unsigned applet jar?

Anth


On Apr 12, 2011, at 7:11 AM, Steve Swinsburg wrote:

> Hi Daniel,
> 
> It is possible to automatically sign the jar at build time via the maven-jar plugin 'sign' goal. In fact the samigo-audio pom already does this but you need to activate the profile in the pom:
> 
> mvn clean install -Pjarsign
> 
> You may need to provide the properties for it, like the keystore location,alias and password. Check the POM.
> 
> It's been a while since I've used this but IIRC the Sakai Foundation used to sign it/provide the cert. Are the artifacts in the repo not signed?
> 
> cheers,
> Steve
> 
> 
> 
> On 12/04/2011, at 8:06 PM, Daniel Merino wrote:
> 
>> Hi everybody.
>> 
>> We have been getting complaints about the audio recorder applet which is 
>> integrated inside Samigo. As it can be seen at 
>> https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-5731 , if the applet is not 
>> signed users must change their local JVM configuration in their 
>> computers in order to use it, a little embarrasing change that can 
>> discourage them to use this feature.
>> 
>> I have signed the applet with a certificate and it works nice, but every 
>> time we redeploy the sam project, the applet is rebuilded unsigned 
>> again, so we must sign it once and another to have it enabled.
>> 
>> I wonder if somebody has come across a solution to automatize this. As 
>> the command to sign the applet could be different for each institution, 
>> I suppose that it is not possible to give a general solution with Maven, 
>> am I wrong?
>> 
>> Thanks in advance.
>> Best regards.
>> -- 
>> Daniel Merino
>> daniel.merino at unavarra.es
>> Gestor de teleformación - Centro Superior de Innovación Educativa.
>> Tfno: 948-168489 - Universidad Pública de Navarra.
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