Windows 7 and Redhat machine communicating via secure Glassfish webservices

I have inherited a web-service that was written in Netbeans and runs on Glassfish (version 3) and used to talk between a Redhat server and a Windows7 machine.

These can be started manually, by using Netbeans (6.9) to start the Glassfish Server and deploy the Java script, and they communicate securely quite happily

Of course, manually deploying the system like this is far from ideal, so I have arranged for Glassfish to be deployed via the command line interface of Redhat;

1. Create a user

   groupadd glassfish

   useradd -s /bin/bash -d /home/glassfish -m -g glassfish glassfish

2. Copy from CD to glassfish directory

   mkdir 开发者_StackOverflow社区cdrom

   chmod 777 /cdrom

   mount /dev/cd0 /cdrom

   cp glassfish-v3.zip /home/glassfish/glassfish-v3.zip

3. Login as the new user in a terminal window

   sudo -i -u glassfish

4. Install GlassFish V3 using user glassfish

   cd ~

   unzip glassfish-v3.zip

   rm glassfish-v3.zip

5. Exit the shell from step 2

Then the .war file (as in the Java script) is put into

glassfish/glassfishv3/glassfish/domains/domain1/autodeploy/CommandAndControlService.war

(As described in; http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E19798-01/821-1757/geyvr/index.html)

Then to run Glassfish I just log in as glassfish user, and launch glassfish

sudo -i -u glassfish
sudo glassfishv2/glassfish/bin/asadmin start-domain

(Which automatically deploys the .war file from earlier, as it’s in the “auto-deploy” directory)

Then for the Windows 7 machine…

Glassfishv3 is unpacked to

C:\glassfishv3

Then to start it I type;

C:\glassfishv3\glassfish\bin\asadmin.bat start-domain

All of the above works without any problems at all, the two machines chatter away happily over a non-secure connection.

The problem is that a secure connection is required, and this has been put in the script, and it works perfectly fine when glassfish is started through Netbeans on both machines.

However, when using the above procedure to start Glassfish, the secure link doesn’t work due to the certificates being “self signed” (the code uses “Mutual Certificates Security”).

I would say that this must be something in the code, but as it works fine when started through Netbeans I’d say that it was something to do with how I’m starting Glassfish, and deploying the .war file.

(I have tried started just one service automatically, and the other through Netbeans, but I get the same issue; the communication link started via the command line cannot connect due to self-signed certificates)

Any ideas?

Many Thanks