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Re: webstart issues with netcdf-4.1.jar

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  • Subject: Re: webstart issues with netcdf-4.1.jar
  • Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 09:39:56 -0400
Hi John,

Here is the manifest info with the exact version number:

Manifest-Version: 1.0
Ant-Version: Apache Ant 1.8.0
Created-By: 1.6.0_18-b07 (Sun Microsystems Inc.)
Built-By: caron
Built-On: 2010-06-17 00:55:08
Implementation-Title: NetCDF-Java-Library
Implementation-Version: 4.1.20100617.0055
Implementation-Vendor: UCAR/Unidata

Steve



John Caron wrote:
>  On 8/24/2010 11:01 AM, Steve Ansari wrote:
>> Hi John,
>>
>> I just wanted to pass along a summary of my web start issues I struggled
>> with yesterday and today.  Suddenly I was getting weird 'could not
>> verify signature' error for the netcdf-4.1.jar from web start.  A ton of
>> digging and running jarsigner -verify did nothing.  Unfortunately, we
>> also just upgraded to the new 'Oracle' JVM (1.6.21 I think) and got a
>> new certificate from Verisign, so I was running in circles.  Finally I
>> verified that the issue was really with netcdf-4.1.jar - it works with
>> netcdf-4.0.jar .  So I cracked open the jar and started messing with the
>> META-INF entries to see if anything helped.  Strangely, I removed the
>> META-INF/INDEX.LIST files and now it works.  I have NO idea why, but I
>> thought I'd pass it along.  Even stranger - the INDEX.LIST file also
>> exists in netcdf-4.0.jar, but doesn't seem to cause a problem.  Perhaps
>> it is out of sync with the actual directories present and this is
>> confusing the jarsigner or web start jar verifier???  I really don't
>> have a clue, but thought I'd pass it along just in case you run into a
>> similar issue.
>>
>> Steve
>>
>>
>
> hi steve, what version of the jar file did you see this problem on?

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