RE: Enhancing HTTP-based connector to support SSL

Hi,

I have committed the code, and tests are running as I write. 

> The problems occurs with the Axis adminclient when connecting to the
> webcontainer to deploy the wssd. By default the admin client 
> needs to trust
> the webcontainer certificate, so if the web container 
> certificate is self
> signed and not included in the client trust store we have an issue.
> This is what was happening for me.
> I have no room in my application to set the generic ssl 
> system properties such
> as "javax.net.ssl.trustStore" to fix the issue and i did not wanted
> to add the web container self signed certificate to axis 
> client trust store (I find this not really clean..)

[snip]

Okay, I see this as a specific problem you have (don't like to set
required system properties, don't like to pay verisign for a trusted
certificate ;), though I agree it may be a common problem.

I would prefer a solution where the code by default doesn't do any
trick, but allows you to subclass and change Axis as required with
little effort.
What do you think ? 
It would be possible for you to take a look at the new code and see if
some refactoring would ease subclassing in such a way that it may be a
good solution for you ?

> The solution i have concerning the webcontainer config "issue" is to 
> build via a
> simple custom API a complete config file for jetty with one 
> http or https
> listener. Save the xml file on hard disk and then instruct 
> mx4j with the
> MX4JRemoteConstants.HTTP_SERVER_CONFIGURATION env param to use the
> freshly built config file.

Uhm. What about a simpler solution: ship with MX4J an example that shows
how to create an http/https-based connector with a sample Jetty
configuration file ?
It is however true that a simple Jetty configuration file can be shipped
with MX4J...
I see your point, will think some more about it.

Thanks for all your feedback !

Simon


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