# Automatic module signing

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/automatic-module-signing/2950>\
**Category:** Module Development\
**Created:** [May 18, 2011, 5:10am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/automatic-module-signing/2950 "2011-05-18T05:10:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![cgz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8dc957/32.png) [@cgz](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/cgz)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2011, 5:10am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/automatic-module-signing/2950/1 "2011-05-18T05:10:41Z")

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I’m currently forming an overall picture of how developing Ignition applications with Java (which apparently is through ModuleSDK) should be done.

The biggest missing piece is how the module signing works. I understood that it should be automatic so I’m expecting something that would work as an Ant build step. When will it be available?

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![Colby.Clegg](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/colby.clegg/32/3282_2.png) [@Colby.Clegg](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Colby.Clegg)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2011, 11:02pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/automatic-module-signing/2950/2 "2011-05-18T23:02:14Z")

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Yes, we’ll be publishing a signing web service soon, and doing whatever seems best to make it callable from Ant. Unfortunately, until it’s ready, you’ll have to send your unsigned (but compiled) modules to [developers@inductiveautomation.com](mailto:developers@inductiveautomation.com) for signing.

We’re going to try to make a lot of progress on the web portion of the module sdk (that is, signing and license managment) by the end of June.

Regards,