ECDHE cipher suites not supported on OpenJDK 8 installed on EC2 Linux machine

So I’m running a similar setup, with an AWS box running openjdk-1.8.0.51. what solved it for me is to add bouncycastle as a provider like so: Add the bcprov-<verion>.jar to /usr/lib/jvm/jre/lib/ext Edit /usr/lib/jvm/jre/lib/security/java.security adding the following line to the list of providers: security.provider.6=org.bouncycastle.jce.provider.BouncyCastleProvider (I added it as the 6th entry but you can add higher … Read more

Jetty: How to change startup temp directory

Jetty needs a working directory. Its search order for finding a work directory is as follows: If the WebAppContext has a temp directory specified, use it. If the ServletContext has the javax.servlet.context.tempdir attribute set, and if directory exists, use it. If a ${jetty.base}/work directory exists, use it (only valid for Jetty 9.1+) If a ${jetty.home}/work … Read more