HowTo use https / ssl with Maven/Mortbay Jetty Plugin?

Question

I would like to use ssl / https as described in

http://docs.codehaus.org/display/JETTY/How+to+configure+SSL

using jetty-maven-plugin, but I don\'t know how t

Answer 1

You can use Maven to create a development certificate and use it when starting Jetty. First, configure the keytool-maven-plugin to create a development certificate:

  org.codehaus.mojo
  keytool-maven-plugin
  
    
      generate-resources
      clean
      
        clean
      
    
    
      generate-resources
      genkey
      
        genkey
      
    
  
  
    ${project.build.directory}/jetty-ssl.keystore
    cn=my.hostname.tld
    jetty6
    jetty6
    jetty6
    RSA
  

Change the CN as you wish. Then configure the maven-jetty-plugin to use the development certificate:

  org.mortbay.jetty
  maven-jetty-plugin
  6.1.10
  
    /context
    5
    
      
        8080
        60000
      
      
        8443
        60000
        ${project.build.directory}/jetty-ssl.keystore
        jetty6
        jetty6
      
    
  

Run mvn jetty:run and open https://localhost:8443/context.