How to Configure HTTPS SSL in Tomcat 6 and 7 Java Web Server

Setting SSL (Secure Socket Layer) in Tomcat is often a requirement, especially while developing  secure web application, which requires access over https protocol. Since Tomcat web server doesn't provide SSL settings by default, you need to know how to configure SSL in tomcat, and even worse it varies between different tomcat versions. for Example SSL setup which works on tomcat 6, doesn't work as it is in tomcat 7. In this article we will see, how to configure tomcat for https in both tomcat 6 and 7. For those programmers who are not very familiar with SSL and https here is a quick overview of SSL, certificates and https, and I suggest reading that article to get better understanding of How SSL works and How websites are accessed security over internet.

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How to configure Log4j in Java program without XML or Properties File

Sometime configuring Log4j using XML or properties file looks annoying, especially if your program not able to find them because of some classpath issues, wouldn't it be nice if you can configure and use Log4j without using any configuration file e.g. XML or properties. Well, Log4j people has thought about it and they provide a BasicConfigurator class to configure log4j programmatically, thought this is not as rich as there XML and properties file version is, but it's really handy for quickly incorporating Log4j in your Java program. One of the reason programmer prefer to use System.out.println() over Log4j, of-course for testing purpose, because it doesn't require any configuration, you can just use it, without bothering about XML or properties file configuration, but most programmer will agree that, they would prefer to use Log4j over println statements, even for test programs if it's easy to set them up. By the way, for production use prefer SLF4J over Log4J.  In this Java tutorial, we will see a nice little tip to use Log4j right away by configuring in couple of lines. In fact you can configure Log4J in just one line, if you intend to use there basic configuration which set's the log level as DEBUG.

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