Resolution:
1. Complete the instructions described in the section titled “HTTPS Support” under “Chapter 2 – Installation” of the TIBCO XML Canon User’s Guide to configure the XML Canon server with SSL. Upon completion of those instructions, a keystore file “.keystore” should be created in the “tomcat\conf” directory.

[Execute the remaining steps from the command line]

2. C:\&gtcd tibco\jre\1.4.2\bin

3. C:\tibco\jre\1.4.2\bin&gtkeytool -export -alias tomcat -file canon.cer -keystore c:\tibco\xmlcanon\3.1\tomcat\conf\.keystore
Enter keystore password:  changeit
Certificate stored in file &ltcanon.cer>

The password should be same as the one which was specified while creating the keystore in step 1.
The certificate canon.cer is created.

4. C:\tibco\jre\1.4.2\bin&gtkeytool -import -file canon.cer -trustcacerts -alias tomcat -keystore c:\tibco\jre\1.4.2\lib\security\cacerts
Enter keystore password:  changeit

Respond with ‘yes’ to the prompt ‘Trust this certificate? [no]:’

5. Start Designer and from the XML Canon plug-in tab, click the “Browse” button to open the project browser. Select the “Secure” checkbox and key-in the secure server URL to connect.

Assumption:
1. The instructions above apply to Windows platform installation; the instructions for Unix are similar.
2. The XML Canon server is installed with the default JRE which ships with the XML Canon install package.
3. The XML Canon server and its client (Designer) are residing on same machine; otherwise, steps 3 and 4 should be done on the machine where Designer is running.

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