Setting Up a Server Certificate
Certificates are used with the HTTPS protocol to authenticate Web clients. The HTTPS service of the J2EE server will not run unless a server certificate has been installed. Use the following procedure to set up a J2EE server certificate.
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Generate a key pair and a self-signed certificate.
The keytool utility enables you to create the certificate. The keytool utility that ships with the J2EE SDK has the same syntax as the one that ships with the J2SE software. However, the J2EE SDK version programmatically adds a Java Cryptographic Extension provider that has implementations of RSA algorithms. This provider enables you to import RSA-signed certificates.
To generate the certificate, run the keytool utility as ... |
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