java - path to trustStore - set property doesn't work?

You have a typo - it is trustStore.

Apart from setting the variables with System.setProperty(..), you can also use

-Djavax.net.ssl.keyStore=path/to/keystore.jks

Looks like you have a typo -- "trustStrore" should be "trustStore", i.e.

System.setProperty("javax.net.ssl.trustStrore", "cacerts.jks");

should be:

System.setProperty("javax.net.ssl.trustStore", "cacerts.jks");

Both

-Djavax.net.ssl.trustStore=path/to/trustStore.jks

and

System.setProperty("javax.net.ssl.trustStore", "cacerts.jks");

do the same thing and have no difference working wise. In your case you just have a typo. You have misspelled trustStore in javax.net.ssl.trustStore.

Alternatively, if using javax.net.ssl.trustStore for specifying the location of your truststore does not work ( as it did in my case for two way authentication ), you can also use SSLContextBuilder as shown in the example below. This example also includes how to create a httpclient as well to show how the SSL builder would work.

SSLContextBuilder sslcontextbuilder = SSLContexts.custom();

sslcontextbuilder.loadTrustMaterial(
            new File("C:\\path to\\truststore.jks"), //path to jks file
            "password".toCharArray(), //enters in the truststore password for use
            new TrustSelfSignedStrategy() //will trust own CA and all self-signed certs
            );

SSLContext sslcontext = sslcontextbuilder.build(); //load trust store

SSLConnectionSocketFactory sslsockfac = new SSLConnectionSocketFactory(sslcontext,new String[] { "TLSv1" },null,SSLConnectionSocketFactory.getDefaultHostnameVerifier());

CloseableHttpClient httpclient = HttpClients.custom().setSSLSocketFactory(sslsockfac).build(); //sets up a httpclient for use with ssl socket factory 



try { 
        HttpGet httpget = new HttpGet("https://localhost:8443"); //I had a tomcat server running on localhost which required the client to have their trust cert

        System.out.println("Executing request " + httpget.getRequestLine());

        CloseableHttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httpget);
        try {
            HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();

            System.out.println("----------------------------------------");
            System.out.println(response.getStatusLine());

            EntityUtils.consume(entity);
        } finally {
            response.close();
        }
    } finally {
        httpclient.close();
    }