Signing the jasper jar files

[2006 IR Open Dicussion]

By: dnelson - lizardpie

Signing the jasper jar files

2006-05-11 14:20

The jasper-webapp sample app has an example of using JRViewer from within an applet. The customized JRViewer removes the Save button, which would normally cause a security exception if attempted.

 

However, I'd like to use this functionality from the main jasperreports-xxx.jar file, which gives the user the option to save the filled report in pdf, rtf, csv, xsl, etc. formats.

 

Is it common practice to sign the jasperreports-xxx.jar and/or the jasperreports-xxx-applet.jar files for this purpose?

 

Is there another way to get the functionality without signing? I see there are JRxxxExporter classes, should these be used instead (after asking the user what format they want?

 

Any help here would be appreciated.

 

Dave