Sign a JAR automatically when building from Netbeans
I want to know if Netbeans has some option or setting that will allow me to automatically sign a jar as part of the build. trashgod In your -post-jar ant target, it may be convenient to read the <signjar> password from a file, e.g. ~/.keyconf . Give the file user-only access: e.g. 400 or 600 . <loadfile srcfile="${user.home}/.keyconf" property="keyconf"/> <signjar alias="..." storepass="${keyconf}"> ... </signjar> You could use the maven plugin for that. Netbeans is able to open and create maven files out-of-the-box. If you need signing for jnlp you could look into this and that explanation,