I wanted to give a heads-up about new security requirements in Java 7u51, January 2014 with regards to Applets and Web Start applications. https://blogs.oracle.com/java-platform-group/entry/new_security_requirements_for_rias The page at http://ant.apache.org/manual/Tasks/jar.html shows an example of Inline Manifest. Can we add a note here about the Permissions manifest and also reference the SignJar task?
sure we can. Any suggestion on the exact wording?
Maybe an additional example after the "Inline manifest" example creating the manifest from https://blogs.oracle.com/java-platform-group/entry/new_security_requirements_for_rias Manifest-Version: 1.0 Created-By: 1.7.0_51 Permissions: sandbox Codebase: www.java.com java.com But we have to spend some words WHY to do that. Would it be enough to link to that blog post?
Created attachment 30810 [details] Patch of manual/Tasks/jar.html I grabbed the source for Ant 1.9.2 and made some edits. Here is a proposed patch.
Created attachment 30811 [details] Patch of manual/Tasks/signjar.html Proposed patch to the SignJar task documentation.
patches applied - I just turned the bare URL pointing to your blog post into a link. I've also merged the changes to the website. Thanks!