Usually I would use a JKS truststore for Tomcat to add trusted certificates (CAs). However this was not possible for this project, because all certificates will be managed inside an LDAP accessible via a XKMS service. Searching for a solution to extend Tomcat to support XKMS based certificate validation I came across the JSSE Standard.
Reading throw the documentation was not so straightforward and clear. But searching through the internet finally helped me to achieve my goal. In this blog post, I'll show you what I had to do, to enabled XKMS based SSL certificate validation in Tomcat.
