In order to configure your Tomcat for HTTPS, you must first generate a server certificate for your web site. To do this, you can use the keytool command, which comes with your JDK or JRE.

In my blog entry Project Jersey and Java-Based REST , I used several screen snapshots and some text to illustrate how NetBeans 6.1 can be used with Jersey (the JSR-311 /JAX-RS reference ...