For a recent project I had to enable SSL communication for the Maven Jetty plugin. So when we run mvn jetty:run we must be able to use the https protocol. After browsing several mailing list I found the answer. For development we can create our own security certificate and configure the plugin to use it. To create the development certificate we run the following command: $ keytool -genkey -alias j
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