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[Sebastian Kostuch <>]

Hi,
I have added possibility to sign java applet. If you want to do this you 
need to specify certificate file and your alias used by jarsigner (these 
are set using configure args: --with-cert and --with-alias). If cert 
option isn't specified then jar will no be signed. Feel free to review 
changes which are available on AppletIssue120 branch.

Regards,
Sebastian Kostuch

On 07.02.2014 22:33, Aaron Brown wrote:
> Hey Sebastian,
>
> Originally, my thought had been that we could start signing the Java applet. 
> However, given that Tiziana, and crew have built a Flash-based client. I 
> think in the short term, that’s probably the best way forward. In the medium 
> to long term, I’d love to see NDT’s protocol’s get changed to make them 
> usable with HTML 5. Long story, short, if we can make the Flash client do 
> what we want, it’s probably best to deprecate the Java applet.
>
> Cheers,
> Aaron
>
> On Feb 6, 2014, at 8:51 AM, Sebastian Kostuch 
> <>
>  wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > according to fact that java applet currently does not work on default 
> > security settings (to get it running I had to change these settings to 
> > medium) I would like to open a discussion (or rather continue the one from 
> > January this year) about future of this applet. It seems like the goal is to 
> > totally delete applet usage and exchange it with flash client or using HTML5 
> > features (please correct me if I am totally wrong). It is related with web 
> > browsers blocking unsigned java applets by default. While I think we should 
> > continue with this approach there is one suggestion according current state 
> > of applet: maybe to get this applet running without lowering security 
> > settings (and to somehow exceed its life and usability) we could sign or let 
> > user specify certificate file to use to do this (I mean for example adding 
> > new option to configure process which will allow to set this file location 
> > and will then automatically sign applet with it). What is your opinion about 
> > it? Is it worth adding such feature (or maybe we should do it another way) or 
> > isn't it so important? Any feedback is welcome and appreciated :).
> >
> > Regards,
> > Sebastian Kostuch