[External] : Re: MacOS bundles using jpackage

[Abhinay Agarwal]

Hi Alexey,

The fix works!

- Abhinay

On Wed, Sep 24, 2025 at 7:48 PM Alexey Semenyuk <alexey.semenyuk at oracle.com>
wrote:

> Hi Abhinay,
>
> Thank you for evaluating the issue! I've updated JDK-8358723 CR with you
> finding.
>
> Can you try another fix? Instead of removing `.entitlements(null)` from
> `signingCfgWithoutEntitlements` object, can you replace
> ---
> final var codesignDir =
> Codesign.build(signingCfgWithoutEntitlements::toCodesignArgs).force(true).create().asConsumer();
> ---
>
> with
> ---
> final var codesignDir =
> Codesign.build(signingCfg::toCodesignArgs).force(true).create().asConsumer();
> ---
>  at [1]?
>
> [1]
> https://github.com/openjdk/jdk25u/blame/e90d54198d4310830c3a970dbe2bc883c67867f8/src/jdk.jpackage/macosx/classes/jdk/jpackage/internal/AppImageSigner.java#L232
>
> - Alexey
>
> On 9/24/2025 3:02 AM, Abhinay Agarwal wrote:
>
> Hi Alexey,
>
> I have tried jpackge from JDK 17/21/24 and applications generated from all
> of them work fine.
>
> Removing `.entitlements(null)` from this particular line fixes the issue
> in JDK25:
>
> https://github.com/openjdk/jdk25u/blame/master/src/jdk.jpackage/macosx/classes/jdk/jpackage/internal/AppImageSigner.java#L228
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> - Abhinay
>
> On 23 Sep 2025, at 21:46, Alexey Semenyuk <alexey.semenyuk at oracle.com>
> <alexey.semenyuk at oracle.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Abhinay,
>
> On 9/23/2025 4:22 AM, Abhinay Agarwal wrote:
>
> We created a DMG package for Scene Builder [1] using jpackage in JDK 25.
> After installing the app, we found that with the recent changes [2]
> introduced in jpackage,
> it no longer adds the default entitlements to the macOS builds. As a
> result, SceneBuilder.app crashes during startup.
> We even tried adding explicit entitlements using `--mac-entitlements`, but
> to no avail.
>
> This is likely to be the issue [1]. I believe it is not JDK 25-specific,
> though; it should affect all versions of jpackage starting from JDK 17. Can
> you try a jpackage from jdk21 or jdk17 to prove me wrong?
>
>
> Furthermore, we discovered that the `--mac-package-signing-prefix` flag
> now requires the prefix to end with a `.`,
> which wasn’t the case earlier.
>
> The prefix value should end with a `.`. See [2]. Prior to jdk25 jpackage
> didn't validate the value of the prefix.
>
> [1] https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8358723
> [2]
> https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/17/jpackage/support-application-features.html#GUID-8D9F0607-91F4-4070-8823-02FCAB12238D
>
> - Alexey
>
>
> - Abhinay
>
> [1] https://github.com/gluonhq/scenebuilder
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> [2] https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8333664
>
>
>
>
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