Hi !
 
With a Jonas application server and a mutual authentication with SSL, we find 
that we had to restart Jonas so it could see change the changes of path or 
content for keystores. It seems to be the same with tomcat, don't know if it 
Axis2 or the application server.
 
Yves-Marie

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De : Sebastian Van Sande [mailto:[email protected]] 
Envoyé : jeudi 29 janvier 2009 08:07
À : [email protected]
Objet : Re: Reload keystore file


Does anyone have a clue how I can refresh the keystore in axis2?
Thank you.


On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Sebastian Van Sande <[email protected]> 
wrote:


        Hi,
        
        I have a problem with Axis2.
        
        At my project, we have an Microsoft Exchange 2007, and some other 
project has created an API to interact with this Exchange server with the help 
of Axis2.
        This other project uses a Websphere server to manage a keystore to do 
basic authentication over SSL.
        My application on the otherhand runs as a standalone application, and I 
have to manage the keystore myself.
        
        Now, I managed to use this keystore to calling the Exchange 2007 Web 
services over SSL, and it works great.
        But, as you probably know, certificates expire ... and they have to get 
renewed.
        
        So, I managed to create something a 'KeyStoreManager' that will fetch 
the new certificates from the Exchange server and put it in the keystore file.
        And this works great as well .. *IF* I restart my application.
        
        When my application modifies the keystore file, it looks like Axis2 is 
using some caching mechanism. Because when I make the web service call again 
(after inserting the new certificate in my keystore), it can't authenticate 
because it cached the keystore file in memory.
        
        To specify the keystore to Axis2, I use this code:
        
                    System.setProperty("javax.net.ssl.trustStore", 
"/path/to/keystore.jks");
                    System.setProperty("javax.net.ssl.trustStorePassword", 
"thisisnottherealpassword");    
        
        To extract the new certificate and add it to my keystore, I use code 
based on the one you can find at 
http://helpdesk.objects.com.au/java/how-do-i-programatically-extract-a-certificate-from-a-site-and-add-it-to-my-keystore
 
        
        The problem is: when the keystore file is updated with the new 
certificate, axis2 doesn't seem to know about it because it uses a cached 
version of the keystore file.
        
        So my question is: how can I clear this axis2 keystore cache in some 
way so axis2 will be forced to read the keystore file again?
        
        Thank you for your help,
        
        Kind regards,
        Sebastian 








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