Java 6u19 and other news
Published by admin on Monday, April 12, 2010 - 00:11:33 - Filed under General, News
Hi there!
Time flies when you are having fun… I see that my last post was celebrating the 5000 visits and today there are more than 7300 already! I haven’t blog too much lately, again quite busy on some new project that I hope you will like (this is soon to be launched in preview, hold on a little!).
Following the advent of Java 6 update 19 that now add a new constraints to third party plugins/beans, I have updated all the beans/plugins available on the Servoy Stuff site with signed versions as well.
You need to know that if a client (with java 6u19) is trying to connect to Servoy with a smart client and if some of your plugins/beans in your application_server/plugins and application_server/beans are not signed they will not be able to launch their client!
Servoy just updated Servoy 5 to 5.1.2 and Servoy 4 to 4.1.6 to workaround this problem, basically signing all the jar libs they are shipping. Make sure you update. Then to be able to work with third party these must be signed as well.
This is why I now provide signed version of all jars. The only problem is that this is signed with a self-signed certificate, meaning that I didn’t pay a signing authority to confirm that I am who I say I am, (I think I already pay a lot with my time here, and to be quite honest I’m too broke to even consider buying one, to give it to others)… Always a question of money in the end, isn’t it? Now if you want to sponsor me with a real certificate I’d be happy to resign all the plugins and beans for real ;-) but in the meantime the self-signing certificate is working anyway, there is just a nagging screen that your users will see stating that the certificate cannot be verified, and if they want more info, they will see that this is signed by ‘Servoy Stuff’.
Maybe that’s not what you want, in which case you can also sign the plugins/beans yourself, just use the nifty testsigner tool that Johan Compagner just put on the forum, donwload the tool and follow his instructions here: http://forum.servoy. … &t=13974#p73294
Talk to you soon with some new and exciting plugin that will take your reporting in Servoy to the next level…
