certificate not trusted by Websphere

Question

I have a web application that call a SOAP Web service secured via SSL .(https://zzzzzzzzzzzz/xxxxx).

The server send two certificates (Root and Leaf) s

Answer 1

Thanks for all the above response. Able to resolve the issue java.security.cert.CertPathValidatorException: Certificate chaining error with following configuration.

1. Found that the following javax properties returned null value in the WebSphere.
   • javax.net.ssl.trustStore,
   • javax.net.ssl.trustStorePassword
   • javax.net.ssl.trustStoreType

For more details, please see this link,

java - path to trustStore - set property doesn't work?

2. Configured the properties as below in the WebSphere

   Select Servers > Application Servers > server_name > Process Definition > Java Virtual Machine > Custom Properties > New.

a) javax.net.ssl.trustStore = jre_install_dir\lib\security\cacerts

Example: C:\Program Files\WebSphere\AppServer\java\jre\lib\security\cacerts

b) javax.net.ssl.trustStorePassword = changeit (default)

c) javax.net.ssl.trustStoreType = jks

For more details, please see this link,

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tivihelp/v2r1/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.isim.doc_6.0%2Finstalling%2Ftsk%2Ftsk_ic_ins_first_security_truststore.htm

After the configuration was able to see in the logs that certificates being added to the trust store.

Thanks, Uday Nilajkar