Name: nl37777 Date: 10/27/2000


Currently the class sun.security.tools.JarSigner is packaged in rt.jar,
and its resources are packaged together with those of the KeyTool and
PolicyTool classes in a common sun.security.tools.Resources class, which
also lives in rt.jar.

jarsigner is a J2SDK tool, not a J2RE tool, and the current packaging
creates a number of problems:
- The JarSigner class itself increases the size of the J2RE download
without benefit to the user.
- Having a shared Resources class means localizers will translate all
strings into at least 9 other languages, as required for an end-user
product (J2RE). This increases localization cost as well as, again, the
J2RE download size. If the strings for jarsigner were separate, they'd
only need to be translated into Japanese, as required for developer
tools (J2SDK), and could be packaged in tools.jar.

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