Programmatically Configure SSL for Jetty 9 embedded

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

https://github.com/eclipse/jetty.project/blob/jetty-9.4.x/examples/embedded/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/embedded/LikeJettyXml.java

For Jetty 9 there is a good reference here and all you need to do is to create the JKS keystore file as explained here. using the command keytool -genkey -alias sitename -keyalg RSA -keystore keystore.jks -keysize 2048. For some reason what works with jetty 8 is not what works on 9.