In-House Certificate Authority for Self Signed Jars in JRE1.8

Hi,
I am trying to get some assistance on a Java issue that Oracle Support are struggling with. I am using Oracle E-Business Suite and there is a note 1591073.1 advising on what to do to allow E-Business Suite to interoperate with the new security model of JRE 1.8
The note effectively advises on 3 options –
Option 1 - Purchase a Code Signing Certificate from a well known Certificate Authority ( already registered in their Root Certificates Key Store cacert ) and import it into the Key Store adkeystore.dat
Option 2 - Purchase a Root Certificate from an unknown Certificate Authority, import it into the Key Store cacerts, then purchase a Code Signing Certificate from this Authority as per option 1
Option 3 - Designate yourself as an In-House Certificate Authority by creating your own Root Certificate, importing into the Key Store cacerts and then creating yourself a Code Signing Certificate as this In-House Authority and importing into the Key Store adkeystore.dat
Q1. I am trying to achieve option 3. However the Oracle note does not actually tell you how to create a Root Digital Certificate and Oracle support are struggling to answer – does anyone know how to do this ?
Q2. How then do you create a Code Signing Certificate – Oracle seem to have a command ‘adjkey’ but I am not sure if this is what should be used and if so, how this maps my Root Certificate in the Key Store cacerts (given that there are also lots of other Root Certificates in cacerts belonging to all the well known Certificate Authorities ) to the Code Signing Certificate Key Store adkeystore.dat ?
Any advice greatly appreciated,
Jim

Hi,
For this issue, ensure you explicitly set the store for the certificate.
Meanwhile, I would like to share the following article with you, I suggest you perform the steps to test it.
Windows 8 Mail and Exchange using a self-signed certificate
http://david.gardiner.net.au/2012/08/windows-8-mail-and-exchange-using-self.html.
It also applies to windows 8.1.
Additionally, I suggest you use other network to test it.
If the issue persists, try to switch off SSL to see if it works.
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