Re: JWS 1.6 problem with signed .zip files?

From:
Knute Johnson <nospam@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Mon, 18 Dec 2006 09:53:31 -0800
Message-ID:
<vAAhh.203773$4Z1.179115@newsfe09.phx>
Andrew Thompson wrote:

Thomas Hawtin wrote:

Andrew Thompson wrote:

'JWS 1.6 does not accept signed .zip files'

You could have actually done what you suggested and searched for a bug.


My bad!

   "support for signed zip file with plug-in applets"
      http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6472102


Yes. That pretty much sums up the results we are
seeing, and confirms that handling of Zip files is
different for 1.5 and 1.6/6.0.

However, although it is currently listed as an
'In progress, bug' - I find this comment confusing..
"Evaluation: in 6.0, we will only read certficiates
for JAR files."

That *almost* implies to me 'we changed our minds,
and tightened the spec. without telling anyone - it will
stay that way - but we might document it somewhere'
(perhaps I read it wrong..)

Do you read that bug report as meaning that Sun
intends to change the behaviour of the 6.0 Plug-In
to again support signed Zip files?

Andrew T.


Andrew:

Here is the exception if that helps any.

JNLPException[category: System Configuration : Exception: null :
LaunchDesc:
<jnlp spec="1.0" codebase="http://www.physci.org/test/jws/zip/"
href="http://www.physci.org/test/jws/zip/audiotrace.jnlp">
   <information>
     <title>Audio Trace 1.0</title>
     <vendor>Andrew Thompson</vendor>
     <homepage href="http://www.physci.org/test/jws/zip/audiotrace.html"/>
     <description kind="one-line">Audio Trace - oscilloscope style sound
trace application.</description>
     <description kind="tooltip">Audio Trace</description>
     <icon
href="http://www.physci.org/test/jws/zip/audiotrace-64x64.gif"
height="64" width="64" kind="default"/>
     <icon
href="http://www.physci.org/test/jws/zip/audiotrace-32x32.gif"
height="32" width="32" kind="default"/>
     <shortcut online="false">
       <desktop/>
       <menu submenu="PhySci"/>
     </shortcut>
     <offline-allowed/>
   </information>
   <security>
     <all-permissions/>
   </security>
   <update check="timeout" policy="always"/>
   <resources>
     <java href="http://java.sun.com/products/autodl/j2se" version="1.6"/>
     <jar href="http://www.physci.org/test/jws/zip/audiotrace.zip"
download="eager" main="true"/>
   </resources>
   <application-desc main-class="org.physci.sound.AudioTrace"/>
</jnlp> ]
    at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.downloadJREResource(Unknown Source)
    at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.prepareLaunchFile(Unknown Source)
    at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.prepareToLaunch(Unknown Source)
    at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.launch(Unknown Source)
    at com.sun.javaws.Main.launchApp(Unknown Source)
    at com.sun.javaws.Main.continueInSecureThread(Unknown Source)
    at com.sun.javaws.Main$1.run(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

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Knute Johnson
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