WaveMaker - handling SSL certificates

In the past some people ask for the SSL certificate handling of WaveMaker. This is mostly caused by WebService integration. With my new vCO 5.1 appliance I had the problem again. After generating a new certificate for the vCenter Orchestrator here I connected the WaveMaker and had to learn a hard lesson: no more HTTP API connection with SOAP! Checking the cause in the browser I could see that there is always a HTTPS redirection :)

So I had to import the certificate of the vCenter Orchestrator like this:

sudo keytool -import -alias vco51.vcloud.lab -file /Users/cjohannsen/Desktop/vco51.vcloud.lab -storepass changeit -keystore /System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents/Home/lib/security/cacerts 

As you can see the WaveMaker uses the JDK certificate store. So I had to export the vCO certificate (i used Firefox) and import it in the certificate store. The store password is originally "changeit". After a WaveMaker restart I tried to connect the https path:

https://vco51.vcloud.lab:8281/vmware-vmo-webcontrol/webservice?wsdl

and everything was fine.

With this its really easy to access the SOAP API. Next post will show how to connect the REST API with WaveMaker :)