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Monday, August 30, 2010

How to generate & add certificates using keytool

Some times you need to use secure http calls depending upon requirements.

At that time if you want to generate a certificate temporarily here are the simple steps for how to generate , put it in JDK & how to configure the same in server (Here i am using tomcat).I got explored a bit while integrating CAS with Liferay.

C:\Documents and Settings\nagendra.busam>keytool -genkey -alias cas-liferay-infocast -keypass changeit -keyalg RSA
Enter keystore password:
What is your first and last name?
[Unknown]: localhost
What is the name of your organizational unit?
[Unknown]: Information systems
What is the name of your organization?
[Unknown]: CIGNEX
What is the name of your City or Locality?
[Unknown]: AHMEDABAD
What is the name of your State or Province?
[Unknown]: GUJARAT
What is the two-letter country code for this unit?
[Unknown]: IN
Is CN=localhost, OU=Information systems, O=CIGNEX, L=AHMEDABAD, ST=GUJARAT, C=IN correct?
[no]: yes


C:\Documents and Settings\nagendra.busam>keytool -export -alias cas-liferay -keypass changeit -file D:\projects\liferay\project-docs\infocast\server_cas_infocast.crt
Enter keystore password:
Certificate stored in file

C:\Documents and Settings\nagendra.busam>keytool -import -file D:\projects\liferay\project-docs\infocast\server_cas_infocast.crt -keypass changeit -keystore C:\Java\jdk1.6.0_19\jre\lib\security\cacerts
Enter keystore password:
keytool error: java.lang.Exception: Certificate not imported, alias <mykey> already exists

Some times you will get above error (here mykey is the default alias - it might have taken already). In that case import the certificate with alias name as below
C:\Documents and Settings\nagendra.busam>keytool -import -alias cas-liferay-infocast -file D:\projects\liferay\project-docs\infocast\server_cas_infocast.crt -keystore C:\Java\jdk1.6.0_19\jre\lib\security\cacerts

Here is my server.xml related change in TOMCAT_HOME/conf

Search for 8443 in that file, you will find some thing like this
<connector clientauth="false" maxthreads="150" port="8443" protocol="HTTP/1.1" scheme="https" secure="true" sslenabled="true" sslprotocol="TLS"></connector>
change above to
<connector clientauth="false" keyalias="cas-liferay-infocast" maxthreads="150" port="8443" protocol="HTTP/1.1" scheme="https" secure="true" sslenabled="true" sslprotocol="TLS"
keystorefile="C:/Documents and Settings/nagendra.busam/.keystore" keystorepass="changeit"
truststorefile="C:/Java/jdk1.6.0_19/jre/lib/security/cacerts"
></connector>
Reference link(s)
http://www.sslshopper.com/article-most-common-java-keytool-keystore-commands.html
 

Sunday, August 1, 2010

Liferay: Using JSONObject for Ajax in Plugin Portlet

Here is a good article about the same

Many times we face situations when we need to use Ajax call from JSP pages. Using jQuery, its very easy to call any JSP through AJAX. You can just call the JSP and show its response from callback into some DOM element.

http://javalibs.blogspot.com/2010/06/liefray-using-jsonobject-for-ajax-in.html

Spring MVC portlet with annotations

Here is a good blog about Spring MVC portlet implementation using annotations

Java portlet framework is awesome for portal developers. Different portal frameworks are there which supports portlet development in their environment. They also support spring portlet. Spring's portlet support is exposed through Spring MVC interface. Spring provides MVC based portlet development which is so easy and neatly architectured.

http://javalibs.blogspot.com/2010/07/spring-mvc-portlet-with-annotations.html