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Signing jars for java.net Web Start applications
It's common these days to provide a Web Start version of your application that can run on a machine without the need to download the bundle distribution manually. If your application needs special access privileges, you will need to sign your jar file(s) and then ask user to allow installing this application. Here are the basic steps to do the job.