Automatically signing .jar files in NetBeans
Just a quick article on something I struggled to find a good example for – configuring NetBeans to sign a .jar file after compilation is complete.
This is very handy, for example, when developing an applet that requires permission to access the file system. This requires the applet to be “signed” using the jarsigner utility, and this quickly becomes a tedious step when testing changes made in your applet in the browser itself.