Java Development

[dmravyan]

Hi,

For some reason when I try to sign my project .cod file the signature tool creates a second instance of my project for it to sign.

I tried to create a new project and move my files - but no luck.

it looks something like:

Proj.cod Not Signed Required RRT

Proj.cod  Not Signed Required  RBB

Proj.cod Not Signed  Optional RCR

Proj-1.cod Not Signed Required RRT     <----????

Proj-1.cod  Not Signed Required  RBB    <----???? Where did these 3 come from?

Proj-1.cod Not Signed  Optional RCR    <----????

Any help would be appreciated.

JDE4.5 - Eclipse

Thanks.

[CMY]

If your cod file is larger than around 64k then it splits the main cod into multiple smaller cod files with the -n extension to the filename.

[statsninja · Accepted solution]

If you change the extension of a cod file to .zip, you will see that on larger apps you have multiple cods and these files are named <primary cod name>-n, with the first file always sharing the filename with your primary cod. When you build your project again it will build a new cod. This has no impact on signing, but is important when writing your jad.

a good post about the issue is here: http://supportforums.blackberry.com/rim/board/message?board.id=java_dev&message.id=16073&query.id=22...

[dmravyan]

Thanks!!

Will this have any affect on OTA deployment?

[simon_hain]

some phones have difficulties uncompressing the zip-file. to avoid this possible error i suggest that OTA provisioning is done using the extracted cods.
unzipping the sub-cods does not influence your signing.

[dmravyan]

Thanks for clearing this up!

[Zodiacal]

so how can we get it to not sign multiple times?

[BBDeveloper]

Once the COD is signed that is sufficient, no need to resign it until you build the new cods.

what is your requirement.

[Zodiacal]

are you guys saying that i can unzip the .cod and then only sign one of them and then deploy all of them and it should work?

[peter_strange]

I'm not sure that is correct, when I sign the cod and then extract all the siblings, I find that they are signed as required.  So sign before extracting.