Mojo's Webstart Maven Plugin version 1.0-beta-4 Released

calendar Nov 6, 2013 · 2 min read  ·
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The mojo Team has released a new release of the Webstart Maven Plugin

This new version permits you to generate some jnlp files acceptable with jdk >= 1.7u45,

You can also now use a keystore from any url.

To get this update, simply specify the version in your project`s plugin configuration:

1<plugin>
2  <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
3  <artifactId>webstart-maven-plugin</artifactId>
4  <version>1.0-beta-4</version>
5</plugin>

Roadmap:

Next release (1.0-beta-5) will appear soon, the issue MWEBSTART-221 has been fixed to make possible usage of versionned resources.

I expect to do this new release in the folowing weeks.

The following bugs have been fixed:

  • MWEBSTART-127 - unsignAlreadySignedJars sometimes removes manifest information
  • MWEBSTART-132 - Unsigning already signed jars doesn`t work when libPath used
  • MWEBSTART-138 - The number of signed artifacts differ from the number of modified artifacts
  • MWEBSTART-144 - Jar Unsigning Does Not Work
  • MWEBSTART-152 - Jar unsign does not remove certificate : comparison is case sensitive against "DSA", "RSA" and "SF" file extensions
  • MWEBSTART-186 - While parsing JNLPConf default value of templateDirectory is wrong
  • MWEBSTART-196 - Jar signing fails if path contains parentheses
  • MWEBSTART-198 - verify via jarsigner not working
  • MWEBSTART-218 - Can`t build project with jdk1.5
  • MWEBSTART-219 - Transitive dependencies not included in generated jnlp files and version.xml

The following improvments:

  • MWEBSTART-39 - Allow keystore to be: a file, classpath resource or remote resource (not only a file)
  • MWEBSTART-50 - AbstractJnlpMojo hardcode`s webstart archive
  • MWEBSTART-121 - The plugin should pick up jars from sister projects
  • MWEBSTART-145 - Dependencies (jar resources) from the webstart plugin are not resolved using the reactor, so mvn clean package will not work. Then, mvn release:prepare will not work either.
  • MWEBSTART-200 - Allow to pass arbitrary properties into velocity template for JNLP file
  • MWEBSTART-206 - Upgrade code to java 5
  • MWEBSTART-207 - Source code formatting
  • MWEBSTART-212 - support for --pass-file=<file_name> (of the pack200 command)
  • MWEBSTART-213 - Enable Manipulation of the manifest from dependend jars
  • MWEBSTART-220 - Allow to pass arbitrary properties into velocity template for jnlp-download-servlet mojo JNLP file

and the following task have been fixed: