Example server configuration with Sun Http(s)Server

Introduction

The main tutorial demonstrates various http clients with a spring-boot server. However not everyone is using spring-boot and therefore it is also good to have examples for other servers.

Getting started

The server is using a shared library for fetching the keystores during startup time. You can either use the main Readme or the available scripts within the script directory to create the required keystores.

Run one of these commands to run the scripts:

• One way authentication: ./configure-one-way-authentication
• Two way authentication: ./configure-two-way-authentication-by-trusting-each-other my-company-name
• Two way authentication by trusting the Certificate Authority: ./configure-two-way-authentication-by-trusting-root-ca my-company-name

Starting the server

1. Initially run mvn clean install from the root directory
2. Either start the server with mvn exec:java, java -jar target/server.jar or by running the main method within your IDE from the App class

Loading the correct application properties

The server has three predefined application properties which can be used straight away for the following use cases:

• No security -> application-without-authentication.properties
• One way authentication -> application-one-way-authentication.properties
• Two way authentication -> application-two-way-authentication.properties

These properties can be injected by using for example the following commands:

java -Dproperties="application-one-way-authentication.properties" -jar target/server.jar

or by running the main method from your IDE while adjusting the location of the properties.

Reloading keystores into executable jar

Make sure to rebuild the project if you're using the jar to run the server and if you plan to adjusting the keystores within the shared server resources. Below is an example command to build with the minimum required maven commands:

mvn -pl shared-server-resources,server-with-sun-httpserver install