Developing Java Applications with Spring and Spring Boot

How to do it...

With the keystore creation complete, we will need to create a separate properties file in order to store our configuration for the HTTPS connectors, such as port. After that, we will create a configuration property binding object and use it to configure our new connector. Perform the following steps:

1. First, we will create a new properties file named tomcat.https.properties in the src/main/resources directory from the root of our project with the following content:

custom.tomcat.https.port=8443 
custom.tomcat.https.secure=true 
custom.tomcat.https.scheme=https 
custom.tomcat.https.ssl=true 
custom.tomcat.https.keystore=${user.home}/.keystore 
custom.tomcat.https.keystore-password=changeit 

2. Next, we will create a nested static ...