>  > Q: Do you know which .jpg files were saved as progressive?
>
> I think all in org/openscience/jmol/images/*.jpg were.  It wasn't clear
> which of them was actually crashing the JVM (not just an exception but a
> full-blown crash), so I saved all of these JPGs with progressive disabled,
> repackaged, signed the JAR and the crash was avoided.

There were only 4 .jpg files.

I saved them all as non-progressive and checked them in to CVS.

>  > Q: If there are no negative implications for local usage then why do we
>  > need both? Why not just sign the Jmol.jar file and be done with it?
>
> Two reasons:
>
> 1. to avoid the bug mentioned above in older JREs (someone might add new
> JPGs to the JAR that trigger this bug - we should be using PNGs actually)
>
> 2. for those who want a smaller (marginally faster to load) application
> JAR

I decided to take the other path.

Jmol.jar is now signed using the same certificate as JmolAppletSigned*.jar

This should simplify your WebStart deployments.


Miguel



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