How to enable SSL on apache Tomcat 7.0

This tutorial shows how to enable SSL support for Apache Tomcat web server.
Requirement

*) Apache Tomcat 5.0
*) JDK 1.5

Note: if you have JDK below 1.4, you need to install Java Secure Socket Extensions (JSSE)

To install and configure SSL support on Tomcat, you need to follow these simple steps.

Generating the KeyStore file:

*) Create a keystore file to store the server's private key and self-signed certificate by executing the following    

    command.
*) Enter command line and change directory to your JAVA\bin folder. (Default path is: C:\Program    

    Files\Java\jre6\bin).
*) Type “keytool –genkey –alias tomcat –keyalg RSA" and press Enter.
        Where tomcat is an alias name and RSA is a key algorithm.
*) Type your password for the keystore. (Default password is: changeit). In this example, I’ll use password as “password"

Enter general information about this Certificate. The example is the image below. In the last line, Enter key password for (tomcat) should be the same as you enter before.Note that this information will be displayed to users who attempt to access a secure page.

*) The file .keystore will be created on your account. (Currently, I use administrator account so it’ll be in  

    C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator).
    I have copied the .keystore file and placed in tomcat folder.

Configure Tomcat:

*) Open server.xml in Tomcat\conf folder. (Default path is: C:\Program Files\Apache Software  

     Foundation\Tomcat x.x\conf).
*) Uncomment the paragraph below this line

<!-- Define a SSL HTTP/1.1 Connector on port 8443 This connector uses the JSSE configuration, when using APR, the connector should be using the OpenSSL style configuration described in the APR documentation -->

Add new attribute 

    keystoreFile="PATH\TO\KEYSTORE\.keystore"

    keystorePass=”password” to the Connector element. If you haven’t change keystore’s password, you    

               don’t have to add this attribute.
   Chnage protocol="org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11NioProtocol"

<Connector port="8443" protocol="org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11NioProtocol" SSLEnabled="true"
maxThreads="150" scheme="https" secure="true"
clientAuth="false" sslProtocol="TLS" keystoreFile="C:\software\apache-tomcat-7.0.23-windows-x64\apache-tomcat-7.0.23\.keystore" keystorePass="password" />

*) Save and restart Apache Tomcat service.

Test the result:
Open browser and navigate to the Apache Tomcat server with https://localhost:8443

Java Date, Calendar and Time API - Tutorial

The Calendar class’ date/time API is a nifty tool for accurately manipulating date and time values without too much stress or custom coding. It provides direct support for time based objects. This article gives a few examples how this API can be used. .

The class java.util.Date was the first implementation which was used for manipulating dates. The class java.util.Calendar was added in Java 1.1 and provides simplified access to storing and manipulating dates.
It is recommended to use Calendar if possible. In reality you have to convert frequently from Date to Calendar and vice versa, e.g. during database access you often get a java.sql.Date object. The following explains how to use Calendar and how to convert Dates into Calendar.

It also offers a set of methods for converting and manipulating temporal information. In addition to retrieving the current date and time, the Calendar class also provides an API for date arithmetic. The API takes care of the numerous minor adjustments that have to be made when adding and subtracting intervals to date and time values.

Calendar’s built-in date/time arithmetic API is extremely useful. For example, consider the number of lines of code that go into calculating what the date will be five months from today. Try doing this yourself — you need to know the number of days in the current month and in the intervening months, as well as make end-of-year and leap year modifications to arrive at an accurate final result. These kinds of calculations are fairly complex and are quite easy to get wrong — especially if you’re a novice developer.


To format a date you can use the class SimpleDateFormat. For example to get today's date in the 'dd/MM/yy' format you can use:
  DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yy"); 

  String formattedDate = df.format(new Date());

To format the date in in the format 'yyyy/MM/dd' you can use.
  DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy/MM/dd"); 

  String formattedDate = df.format(theDate);

Table 1. Calendar field access

FieldExplanationCalendar.YEAR Identifies the year
Calendar.MONTH Identifies the month
Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH Identifies the day
Calendar.HOUR Identifies the hour
Calendar.MINUTE Identifies the minute
Calendar.SECOND Identifies the second

Tutorial is on GitHub: Timer Tutorial

Some useful articles:
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/howdoi/how-do-i-perform-datetime-arithmetic-with-javas-calendar-class/116