mardeni / chrome-native-messaging-java

A Chrome Extension interacting with the Native Messaging API/Message Passing, which calls a Java program, in order to access host information, as certificate store. All this proccess is just to simulate a Java Applet scenario, without NPAPI.

chrome-native-messaging-java

A Chrome Extension interacting with the Native Messaging API/Message Passing, which calls a Java program, in order to access host information, as certificate store. All this proccess is just to simulate a Java Applet scenario, without NPAPI.

tested only on Windows.

This application fill the requirements below:

1. Web Application (test-ui folder), which exchanges messages with a Chrome Extension via JSON (app folder).
2. Chrome Extension exchanges messages with the Chrome Native Messaging API (host-dist folder), which calls a .bat and it calls a Java program (host-project folder) to access the Windows Certificate Store in order to list all the availabe certificates or sign documents.
3. Install and uninstall host application.

###How to test:###

1. Change line 15 and 19 in app/manifest.json for your application url.
2. Create a folder C:\ext, copy all the files from host-dist and paste there.
3. Compile the host-project with 'mvn package' (Maven), copy the generated jar and paste in C:\ext
4. Run the install_host.bat from installer folder.
5. Put Chrome in Developer mode, drag the app folder and drop in the Chrome Extensions page, in your browser. More details here.
6. Open the index.html from test-ui and be happy.

Please let me know if I miss one step or if you have faced any issues trying this.