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How exactly do I create a signed JAR for use in Netscape browsers?

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How exactly do I create a signed JAR for use in Netscape browsers?

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Location: http://www.jguru.com/faq/view.jsp?EID=35936 Created: Apr 13, 2000 Modified: 2000-09-14 08:00:18.111 Author: John Zukowski (http://www.jguru.com/guru/viewbio.jsp?EID=7) Question originally posed by Alex Chaffee PREMIUM (http://www.jguru.com/guru/viewbio.jsp?EID=3 To use a trusted applet within Netscape Navigator/Communicator requires a signing certificate. You contact an independent Certification Authority (CA) like Verisign. Or, if you wish to setup your own in-house CA, for intranet/extranet applications, you can purchase Netscape’s Certificate Server. Netscape’s tool for object signing is called the Netscape Signing Tool. There are different versions available for the major platforms that Netscape supports. Previous versions of the tool were called zigbert and Page Signer. Those tools are no longer supported. The Signing Tool program named is called signtool and is used to sign jar files for Netscape Communicator 4.x. Even though you use signtool to sign jar files, Communic