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

Thanks for all the help guys. I will re-iterate what I did just for my own record purposes.

First of all, the link provided by nont about 'Tomcat for SSL' was really helpful. I read all about SSL and Tomcat there and this is what I did:

On the command prompt, enter: keytool -genkey -alias tomcat -keyalg RSA The above command asked me some simple questions needed for a Certificate. I used the password 'changeit' wherever asked (as that is the default password).

On finishing with the above command, it generated a keystore file in C:/Documents and Settings//.keystore I copied this .keystore file to tomcat/conf/myKeyStore.jks

Then I added the following to conf/server.xml :

And that's it!! Next time, I ran tomcat my old http link did not work. Then I tried adding sweet 's' to http with a port number of 8443 and lo! everything was up and running again.

Thanks nont for the wonderful link!!