Java and Certificates
- Debesh Roy Chowdhury
Owned by Debesh Roy Chowdhury
Syndeia applications, whether desktop plugins or enterprise microservices, are Java applications. Like all Java applications which communicate with networked services using Secure Socket Layer HTTP (HTTPS), the JVMs chosen by an organization to run these Syndeia applications must be configured with industry-standard X.509 public and private certificates and each pair of client/server JVMs must “trust” each other.
The following article is a brief guide to configuring client and server JVMs for SSL certificates. There is much, much more available online and there are many tools to assist administrators.