Hi, Thomas --
I am very much an amateur and only do development with Java and FX w/o
other libraries, so I am not sure if this will work for you, but I have
recently stumbled on something called jDeploy. (https://www.jdeploy.com/).
I am quite happy with it!
-- Chris
On Thu, Oct 3, 2024, at 12:13 PM, Thomas Wolf wrote:
> Hi,
> I'll be up-front: this isn't strictly a Netbeans question, but I do wonder
> how NB developers handle this situation and, hopefully, get some ideas about
> what I can do myself.
>
> Recently, I went through my usual notarization process with my application (a
> DMG installer produced by jpackage) only to see the submission fail. Looking
> at the log, Apple is now complaining about the native macOS executables I'm
> bundling in my application's jar file as well as the JNA jar that JGit's jar
> depends on. It seems Apple is getting ever more watchful on what runs on
> their Macs.
>
> I was able to get around the notarization failure on my native executables by
> simply encrypting them. I know, the 'right' thing to do would be to actually
> do the three things Apple now asks for (signing each executable, providing a
> secure time stamp, and having them run in a hardened runtime environment),
> but I have neither the time nor Mac-specific knowledge to go down that path.
> Encrypting those executables will prevent future snooping by Apple as well.
>
> But what to do about the JGit JNA dependency? I read sometime back that
> Netbeans also uses JGit - if that's true, how do the community members that
> provide the DMG installer of NB handle this notarization requirement? Or is
> there a version of JGit that's pure Java that I could use instead and avoid
> the issue altogether?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Tom
>
>
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