Setting the right truststore in JBoss 7

Question

I want to send EMails from a JBoss 7 application. The SMTP server needs a TLS connection with a self signed certificate. If I try to send a EMail I get a SSLHandshakeExcepti

Answer 1

Someone asked on the JBoss forum "javax.net.ssl.trustStore - only way to specify client trust?", and the answer is basically "yes".

Their approach was to set that in a system-properties element in the server config XML, which seems like the best way to me too. Better than grubbing about in the run configuration files!