How to sign a jar for use with Java Web Start

Question

Then I did this:

keytool -genkey -keystore keystore -alias myself

jarsigner -keystore keystore <yourApplication>.jar myself

Which results in this:

So my question is: How do I sign the jar so it will load?

Answer 1

You will either need a trusted certificate to sign the jar file or you have to add your host to the exception list in the Java Control Panel.

For more details take a look at this blog post