[gerardvijay]

Hi Team,

In MyEclipse-7.5 we have enabled “Check digital signatures”, We will get this option if we enable “Classic Updates” under Windows -> pref -> gen -> caps.

MyQuestion is:

1.Even after enabling “Check digital signatures” we are not getting the popup message while installing our plugin. the popup message will contain our certificate deatils.

i,e the popup will have Certificate:File signed by:CN=xxxx, OU=xxxx, O=xxx, L=xxx, ST=xxx, C=xx,
Valid Between “from date” and “to date”
Valid Certificate.

But its working fine in MyEclipse-5.0.

I have reported the same problem to ME team for ME 7.1 and they informed that they will fix this issue in ME 7.5 but digital signatures are not getting poped up in ME 7.5 also, so i want to know whether its fixed or not.

Thanks.

[Scott Anderson]

Gerard,

“Classic Updates” was the method used by the Eclipse platform to update for Eclipse 3.3 and prior versions. MyEclipse 5.0 was based on Eclipse 3.3 and that’s why you see the functionality at that location in MyEclipse 5.0. MyEclipse 7.x is based on Eclipse 3.4 and beginning with 3.4 the new p2-based update management is used for the software and “Classic Updates” has been deprecated by the both the Eclipse and MyEclipse teams as a result.

If you’d like to see the digital signature of your plugin the new way to do it is:
1) Select Help > About MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench
2) Select the “Plug-in Details” button
3) You can look at the certificate icons to see if they’re “whole”, indicating a valid certificate, or “broken” indicating a bad one
4) Select any particular plugins and click the “Show Signing Info” button on the dialog to show the certificate details. Please note the button will change its title to “Hide Signing Info” once the information is visible.

I’ve attached a screenshot to illustrate how to do this a bit better.

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[gerardvijay]

Thanks scott,

When i Select any particular plugins and click the “Show Signing Info” button on the dialog it displays certificate details but signing date is unknown, for us the certificate expiry date is more important, is there a way i can find out my certificate expiry date?

[Scott Anderson]

Gerard,

Eclipse doesn’t seem to be able to determine the “signing date” on any plugin, including those in the platform. As far as the certificate expiry date, there doesn’t appear to be a way to display that information within Eclipse; it seems only to care if the certificate is valid or not. However, you can check the signing information for any plugin jar file from the command-line using Java’s jarsigner utility like this:

jarsigner -verify -verbose -certs <name-of-jar>.jar

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