How to sign Java Code
Currently (1999), separate vendors have the following major code-signing tools;
- Netscape's Object Signing
- Microsoft's Authenticode
- Sun's JDK 1.1 Code Signing
- Sun's Java 2 Code Signing
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Though Java is designed to be portable, there are various vendor specific code signing tools that make signed Java code incompatible in others environment. Having various complexity levels , vendor dependencies for leaving sandboxes, giving different control mechanisms to user makes them independent from each other.