maven-jarsigner-plugin vs maven-jar-plugin

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What is difference between maven-jarsigner-plugin and maven-jar-plugin?

In android, I use maven-jarsigner-plugin.today seeing another android project, parent POM uses a plugin named maven-jar-plugin.

1 I want to know their diff, and show a simple example

2 in android, which one is prefered.

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 15 '15 at 06:58

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The maven-jarsigner-plugin intention is, excerpt from the docs:

This plugin provides the capability to sign or verify a project artifact and attachments using jarsigner.

whereas the maven-jar-plugin is intention is to create jar files.

answered Jan 15 '15 at 06:58

khmarbaise

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