Programmatically Configure SSL for Jetty 9 embedded - ssl

Question

I'm using jetty version 9.0.0.M4 and am trying to configure it to accept SSL connections.
following the instructions in:
http://www.eclipse.org/jetty/documentation/current/configuring-connectors.html
I've managed to write something that works.
However, the code I wrote seems ugly and unnecessarily complex.
Any idea how to do this properly?
final Server server = new Server(Config.Server.PORT);
SslContextFactory contextFactory = new SslContextFactory();
contextFactory.setKeyStorePath(Config.Location.KEYSTORE_LOCATION);
contextFactory.setKeyStorePassword("******");
SslConnectionFactory sslConnectionFactory = new SslConnectionFactory(contextFactory, org.eclipse.jetty.http.HttpVersion.HTTP_1_1.toString());
HttpConfiguration config = new HttpConfiguration();
config.setSecureScheme("https");
config.setSecurePort(Config.Server.SSL_PORT);
config.setOutputBufferSize(32786);
config.setRequestHeaderSize(8192);
config.setResponseHeaderSize(8192);
HttpConfiguration sslConfiguration = new HttpConfiguration(config);
sslConfiguration.addCustomizer(new SecureRequestCustomizer());
HttpConnectionFactory httpConnectionFactory = new HttpConnectionFactory(sslConfiguration);
ServerConnector connector = new ServerConnector(server, sslConnectionFactory, httpConnectionFactory);
connector.setPort(Config.Server.SSL_PORT);
server.addConnector(connector);
server.start();
server.join();

Answer 1

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

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

For those who can't get above configuration working:
If you are using java 1.7, ensure you have latest update of it. First versions of jvm 1.7 cause problems with accessing https web pages (browser may display: connection reset, connection aborted, or no data received error).