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Signed Applet does not load


I've a simple HelloWorld applet, I am embedding that in the HTML. It worked fine. But I put the applet in the jar and signed the jar, but it does not load saying "Self signed jars can't be supported" I am signing using ICA issued cert. More over we never faced this issue before 1.7.51 version. BTW : I went through Oracle Documentation on adding parameters

According to it I tried to add following attributes in the signed MANIFEST.MF namely : Permissions: sandbox, Trusted-Library: true but this also did not help. I am not sure I'am missing something.

Manifest looks like this :

Manifest-Version: 1.0
Trusted-Library: true
Permissions: all-permissions
Application-Library-Allowable-Codebase: *
Caller-Allowable-Codebase: *
Codebase: *

Created-By: 1.7.0_45 (Oracle Corporation)

Name: HelloWorld$1.class
SHA1-Digest: xcxzcbxzcbxzcbxzcb=

Name: HelloWorld.class
SHA1-Digest: xaadfasfdasdfsafd=

Adding console logs :

com.sun.deploy.security.BlockedException: Your security settings have blocked a self-signed application from running
    at com.sun.deploy.security.SandboxSecurity.showBlockedDialog(Unknown Source)
    at com.sun.deploy.security.TrustDecider.askUser(Unknown Source)
    at com.sun.deploy.security.TrustDecider.validateChain(Unknown Source)
    at com.sun.deploy.security.TrustDecider.isAllPermissionGranted(Unknown Source)
    at sun.plugin2.applet.Plugin2ClassLoader.isTrustedByTrustDecider(Unknown Source)
    at sun.plugin2.applet.Plugin2ClassLoader.getTrustedCodeSources(Unknown Source)
    at com.sun.deploy.security.CPCallbackHandler$ParentCallback.strategy(Unknown Source)
    at com.sun.deploy.security.CPCallbackHandler$ParentCallback.openClassPathElement(Unknown Source)
    at com.sun.deploy.security.DeployURLClassPath$JarLoader.getJarFile(Unknown Source)
    at com.sun.deploy.security.DeployURLClassPath$JarLoader.access$1000(Unknown Source)
    at com.sun.deploy.security.DeployURLClassPath$JarLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at com.sun.deploy.security.DeployURLClassPath$JarLoader.ensureOpen(Unknown Source)

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Solution

  • Well I found the solution for this :

    Check following three things.

    1) Certificate has valid chain upto root and CA/ICA are public root.
    2) Manifest.MF must have 2 attributes.
    

    Check more information here.