Configuring KeyStore credentials in JDeveloper

In order to authenticate to https services, the server side public certificate must be acquired and added as a trusted cert entry to a keystore used by the client.  This certificate can be imported using the browser as shown in the screen shot below. This keystore stores a reference to the public certificate of the service and will be using some alias. The certificate for a web service can be obtained from the service WSDL url. Save the imported certificate to local drive.

Import Service certificate to a keystore file

·         keytool -importcert -alias testkey -file servicecertificatefile.cer  -keystore  .\my-keystore.jks -storepass keystorepassword

Tip:  keytool utility can be found the path <jdk_install_dir>/bin

List the contents of a keystore

·         keytool -list -keystore ".\my-keystore.jks"

Steps to specify the keystore that JDeveloper should use for handling https traffic:

·         Go to Tools à Preferences

·         In the LHS tree node select credentials

·         Configure the Client Trusted Certificate Keystore pointing to the my-keystore.jks location created earlier and provide the key store password