1 | Get a signing certificate from a CA, Certificate Authority, listed at https://certs.netscape.com. |
2 | Import the certificate to your Netscape Communicator browser. |
3 | Use The Netscape Object Signing Tool, which is a command line program, signtool, to sign JAR files. (Note that digital signature information is transmitted in JAR files); |
4 | Refer to the signed code as <APPLET CODE="signed.class" ARCHIVE="myjarfile.jar"> |
5 | Use signtool to sign the classes and create a JAR file: signtool -d"path to certificate" -k"my CA" -e ".class" -Z myjar.jar |