The ServerConnector
should be setup with an SslContextFactory
.
The rest of the work you are doing in the HttpConfiguration is irrelevant to setting up SSL.
A good example of setting up SSL in embedded mode is maintained in the embedded jetty examples project.
http://git.eclipse.org/c/jetty/org.eclipse.jetty.project.git/tree/examples/embedded/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/embedded/LikeJettyXml.java
Edit: to be more clear (thanks Erik)
Update: June 2016
The Eclipse Jetty Project has moved its canonical repository to github.
The above LikeJettyXml.java
can now be found at