Help is available for each task, or you can go straight to
the solution source code.
Task 1
Add Netscape's
capabilities classes to your CLASSPATH
.
If you place the classes in the same directory as you compile, the following command will add the package to the end of your
CLASSPATH
.
set CLASSPATH=
%CLASSPATH%;capsapi_classes.zip
Task 2
Compile the program.
javac WordCount.java
Task 3
Locate your code signing certificate to sign the code.
Task 4
If you have a certificate already, skip to the next step, if not create a testing certificate with signtool
.
Before creating the certificate, make sure you have password-enabled the Communicator Certificate DB. Select the Passwords option after
selecting the Security icon in the Communicator toolbar and enter a password. For running signtool, text in bold is what you enter,
everything else shown is just prompts.
signtool -G"testit"
-d "C:\Program Files\Netscape\Users\default"
using certificate directory:
C:\Program Files\Netscape\Users\default
Enter certificate information. All fields are optional.
Acceptable characters are numbers, letters, spaces,
and apostrophes.
certificate common name: Counting Test Certificate
organization: MageLang
organization unit: Yes
state or province: CA
country (must be exactly 2 characters): US
username: jean
email address: jean.doe@jean.foo
Enter Password or Pin for "Communicator Certificate DB":
password
(password does not show when typed)
generated public/private key pair
certificate request generated
certificate has been signed
certificate "testit" added to database
Exported certificate to x509.raw and x509.cacert.
Task 5
Make a signing subdirectory. The signtool
places everything from a particular directory tree into the Jar file.
For Windows:
mkdir signing
Task 6
Copy the .class
files into the subdirectory.
For Windows:
copy *.class signing
Task 7
Create the signed Jar file with signtool
and the testing certificate.
Be sure to use the appropriate directory name for the -d
option. You will need to enter the password for the Communicator
Certifcate DB before the signed file is created.
signtool -d "C:\Program Files\Netscape\Users\default"
-k testit -Z count.jar signing
Task 8
Verify the signing with signtool
.
signtool -d "C:\Program Files\Netscape\Users\default"
-v count.jar
If everything signed okay, you should see something like the following:
using certificate directory:
C:\Program Files\Netscape\Users\default
archive "count.jar" has passed crypto verification.
status path
------------ -------------------
verified WordCount$1.class
verified WordCount$2.class
verified WordCount.class
Task 9
Create an HTML
loader for the applet, referencing the signed cab file.
The option to remember is archive
.
<applet code=WordCount width=300 height=100
archive=count.jar>
</applet>
Task 10
FTP Jar file and HTML loader to a web server and try it out.
You'll have to locate a web server you have access to for this step. Just remember to transfer the Jar file in binary mode.
Task 11
Load program into Communicator and try it out.
This time when you are prompted for trusting the applet the certificate will have been signed.
Counting words takes time. You can comment out the print statement in the source to print each word as it is counted.
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