I ask because I have an unsigned jar that runs and a signed version that doesn’t. Looking at the manifests, I see no main class thing for the signed one.
Do I have to run a signed jar from web start?
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I ask because I have an unsigned jar that runs and a signed version that doesn’t. Looking at the manifests, I see no main class thing for the signed one.
Do I have to run a signed jar from web start?
Not necessarily, but if you don’t have a Main-class: in the manifest, you can’t run it as an executable. If you know the main class, you can run it using the java executable, eg