Signing

Sometimes when accessing SOAP APIs, our SOAP client needs to sign the request. How this can be achieved using Spring Boot’s WebserviceTemplate within a few steps is the scope of this short article. This snippet only deals with the client side not with the security configuration on the server side. Also it assumes, that you have already set up your keystore/truststore and that you’re loading these with your Spring Boot application’s startup without errors. ...

There is a nice Maven plugin helping you signing your Android app – the Maven Jar Signer Plugin. If you want to learn more about Maven integration in an android project take a look at this article. Maven Profile Setup Add the following code to your pom.xml <?xml version="1.0"?> <profiles> <profile> <id>sign</id> <build> <plugins> <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-jarsigner-plugin</artifactId> <version>1.2</version> <executions> <execution> <id>signing</id> <goals> <goal>sign</goal> </goals> <phase>package</phase> <inherited>true</inherited> <configuration> <archiveDirectory/> <includes> <include>target/*.apk</include> </includes> <keystore>path/to/keystore</keystore> <storepass>storepasword</storepass> <keypass>keypassword</keypass> <alias>key-alias</alias> </configuration> </execution> </executions> </plugin> <plugin> <groupId>com.jayway.maven.plugins.android.generation2</groupId> <artifactId>maven-android-plugin</artifactId> <inherited>true</inherited> <configuration> <sign> <debug>false</debug> </sign> </configuration> </plugin> </plugins> </build> </profile> </profiles> ...