How to develop https site with Spring 3.x?

Question

I am a newbie in Spring based web development.

Our site is Spring based and is currently http based (so quite insecure). Since, the site is not live yet, we are send

Answer 1

As Dave says, you need to configure your container to serve SSL, and then deploy your spring app into that container. Learn about configuring Tomcat for SSL.

Alternately, and more flexibly you can front your container using Apache, and enable SSL there.