“It seems Oracle has decided in their infinite wisdom to remove digital signatures from the Java projects that they put into the open source community. Of course this breaks any application out there depending on Java Webstart using these libs. Looks like Java3D and JAI are currently affected — probably other APIs are as well. [...]

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To convert Visual Studio 2010 solution file .sln to Visual Studio 2008 solution file .sln simply follow these steps: in .sln file replace “Format Version 11.00″ to “Format Version 10.00“ in .sln file replace “# Visual Studio 2010″ to “# Visual Studio 2008“ in .csproj replace “ToolsVersion=”4.0”” to “ToolsVersion=”3.5”“ in .csproj replace “v10.0″ to “v9.0“ [...]