There’s some confusion on the Internet about how to control which certificates are used for server (and non-server) TLS sockets and why client certs just don’t seem to work right (see here, here, here, here, etc.). I’ll explain how the process is supposed to happen, explain why it doesn’t necessarily work easily with Java, and [...]
Monthly Archives: October 2011
Java 2-way TLS/SSL (Client Certificates) and PKCS12 vs JKS KeyStores
Posted by Marshall Pierce on 2011/10/18
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Embedded MySQL in Java with Connector/MXJ and 64-bit Linux
Posted by Marshall Pierce on 2011/10/03
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MySQL’s Connector/MXJ is a tool that exposes the ability to start and stop an embedded MySQL server through a Java API. You can have the MySQL JDBC driver start up a server just by appropriately configuring your JDBC url or you can programmatically control the server through the MysqldResource class. It does this by bundling [...]