So I’ve been searching for a long time for a small side project where I could give Quarkus’ Native-Image support a spin. While we are using Quarkus in JDK mode in almost all of our server applications there was no need yet to compile a native binary.

This week although I found the perfect usecase: I’ve been banging my head against codesigning and notarizing an e(fx)clipse application (shipped with a JRE) the whole week.

Doing that requires to execute a bunch of cmd-utilities one by one. So I came up with the plan to write an Quarkus command line application, compiled to a native executable to automate this process a bit more. Yeah there are go and python solutions and I could have simply written a shell-script but why not try something cooler.

The result of this work is a native OS-X executable allowing me to codesign, create a dmg/pkg, notarize and finally staple the result as you can see from the screenshot below

As of now this does not include anything special for Java application so it can be used for any application (I currently have an artifical restriction that you can only use .app)

All sources are available at https://github.com/BestSolution-at/mac-codesigner and I added a pre-release of the native executable. Miss a feature, found a bug? Feel free to file a ticket and provide a PR.