How to add server certificate into java application in eclipse

Question

I've got a server application which uses:

import javax.net.ssl.SSLServerSocket;
import javax.net.ssl.SSLServerSocketFactory;
import javax.net.ssl.SSLSocket;

This is a java application, which is a server itself - I'm not using any virtual servers and its not a web application. It is supposed to recieve connections from client applications and handle their requests. An interlayer between client applications and a database.

On launch it does run, but keeps spamming (cause of while (true) {}) this error:

javax.net.ssl.SSLException: No available certificate or key corresponds to the SSL cipher suites which are enabled.
    at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLServerSocketImpl.checkEnabledSuites(Unknown Source)
    at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLServerSocketImpl.accept(Unknown Source)

So, I've looked up few SSL Certificate creation guides and made a certificate using these commands:

keytool -genkey -alias serverprivate -keystore servestore -keyalg rsa -keysize 2048
keytool -export -alias serverprivate -keystore servestore -rfc -file server.cer

And imported it to my local certificate storage, so I can test it with my client application:

keytool -import -alias trustservercert -file server.cer -keystore clienttruststore

All of this was done in my $JAVA_HOME\bin directory. I also updated my eclipse.ini file with

-vm
$JAVA_HOME\bin\javaw.exe

so eclipse will use my jdk7 virtual machine to run applications.

Same time I have tried copying server.cer and servestore files into both $ECLIPSE_HOME and application home directories.

The result is: same error message. It doesn't stop the application from running, but it remains.

Would really appreciate some help here. What am I doing wrong? Maybe there's a cool, detailed, newbie friendly guide on creating applications with SSL, which I couldn't find?

Answer 1

You have to add these parameters to your jvm Start up.

-Djavax.net.ssl.trustStore="<path to truststore>"
-Djavax.net.ssl.trustStorePassword=password

If you need more details about Java and SSL have a look at this.