Managing security

The security management of applications is handled by security tool plug-ins that are provided with the MTJ package. The security management functionality in MTJ is a global service, allowing you to use the same keys and certificates in various mobile projects.

• MTJ preferences, where you can do the following:
• Configure the security manager plug-ins
  These include the key generator tools.
• Configure the Signing Provider plug-ins
  These include the signing tools.
• The Security Management for MTJ Applications window, where you can do the following:
• Manage keys
  This includes managing the key store, creation of keys and certificate requests and importing of certificates and certificate responses into key stores.
• Sign and unsign applications
• Ad and remove critical and optional permissions from the project's .jad file
• Import public key certificates to a Default ME key store

Note: Only one security manager and one Signing Provider can be active at the same time.

MTJ uses a public key and a certificate. MTJ is capable of creating certificate requests, but the user is responsible for sending the requests to the correct CAs and of importing the certificates and responses into MTJ.

Mobile Tools for the Java Platform
Providers

Setting up signing
Deploying applications to mobile devices

Preferences