Sun Java System Application Server Platform Edition 8.2 Administration Guide

Enabling Mutual SSL Authentication in an Application

To enable mutual authentication for a specific application, use deploytool to set the method of authentication to Client-Certificate. For more information about using deploytool, refer to the Security chapter of The J2EE 1.4 Tutorial at http://java.sun.com/j2ee/1.4/docs/tutorial/doc/index.html.