How to enable/Disable JSSE in Weblogic Server in 11g/12c

• JSSE stands for Java Secure Socket engine. This is useful while enabling SSL in oracle weblogic server.
• Oracle 11g weblogic server by default uses the Certicom Bases SSL implementation and supports the TLS version SSLv3 and TLS.10.
• JSSE enables us to more secure protocol like TLS1.1 and later

Reason for Enabling SSE in Weblogic Server

You may want to enable JSSE for below reasons

• SHA-2 signed certificates are supported in the JSSE SSL implementation provided in WebLogic Server.
• JSSE-based implementation supports TLS V1.0, TLS V1.1, and TLS V1.2. Also to enable support for the TLS V1.1 and TLS V1.2 protocols, WebLogic Server must be running with JDK 7. Note Latest Version JDK 1.6 also supports these TLS version

How to enable JSSE in Weblogic Server

(1) Login to Weblogic Console

(2) Click on Lock and Edit

You should see below screen after doing this

(3) Navigate to Environment > Servers and select the server where you want to change it

(4) Now go to SSL tab and then go to advanced section and click on JSSE enabled

(5) Save the changes and the release the configuration

(6) Now you can restart the Managed server and it will start using JSSE

Alternative way to enable JSSE

You can also enable JSSE by settings these parameter in JAVA_OPTIONS. 

 -Dweblogic.ssl.JSSEEnabled=true 
 -Dweblogic.security.SSL.enableJSSE=true

This can be set in $DOMAIN_HOME/bin/setDomainEnv.sh  or whereever JAVA_OPTION are being picked up

How to enable JSSE in weblogic

If you have enable JSSE then you can revert back the same way
(a) Login to weblogic console
(b) Lock and edit the configuration
(c) Navigate to Environment > Servers and select the server where you want to change it
(d) Now go to SSL tab and then go to advanced section and unclick on JSSE enabled
(e) save the changes and release the configuration
(f) Restart the managed server

JSSE in Oracle weblogic server 12c

Certicom is disabled in Oracle weblogic server 12c and JSSE is enabled by default . We cannot disable the JSSE in Oracle weblogic server 12c

Even if you set these options to false,

-Dweblogic.ssl.JSSEEnabled=false
 -Dweblogic.security.SSL.enableJSSE=false

Oracle weblogic server will ignore these parameter