>>> The jarsigner from jdk9/dev can not, giving me the error
>>> 
>>> jarsigner: unable to sign jar: javax.net.ssl.SSLException: 
>>> java.lang.RuntimeException: Unexpected error: 
>>> java.security.InvalidAlgorithmParameterException: the trustAnchors 
>>> parameter must be non-empty
>>> 
>>> I’m unsure what that means, and searching for it has not turned up anything 
>>> useful except that it might be limited to Mac OS/X.  If anyone can help me 
>>> here, I’d appreciate it.
>> 
>> This means it could not find a trusted root CA from the cacerts file to 
>> validate the certificate chain. By default, OpenJDK includes an empty 
>> cacerts file. You need to do a jdk9 build with the closed sources, as that 
>> is where the trusted roots are.
> 
> If this is the problem, I think it's a bug. When jarsigner is signing it uses 
> a key pair inside a keystone specified by -keystore. I don't see a reason why 
> cacerts must be populated.

I copied a cacerts file from an official Oracle early access release of JDK 9 
and it started working.

> 
> Can you add a -debug option to show the full exception stack info? I even 
> could not see how SSL is involved here.

Would you still like me to do this?

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