[java] Java: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target

I was able to get it working with code only, i.e. no need to use keytool:

import com.netflix.config.DynamicBooleanProperty;
import com.netflix.config.DynamicIntProperty;
import com.netflix.config.DynamicPropertyFactory;
import org.apache.http.client.config.RequestConfig;
import org.apache.http.config.Registry;
import org.apache.http.config.RegistryBuilder;
import org.apache.http.conn.ssl.SSLContexts;
import org.apache.http.conn.ssl.TrustStrategy;
import org.apache.http.conn.ssl.X509HostnameVerifier;
import org.apache.http.impl.nio.client.CloseableHttpAsyncClient;
import org.apache.http.impl.nio.client.HttpAsyncClients;
import org.apache.http.impl.nio.conn.PoolingNHttpClientConnectionManager;
import org.apache.http.impl.nio.reactor.DefaultConnectingIOReactor;
import org.apache.http.impl.nio.reactor.IOReactorConfig;
import org.apache.http.nio.conn.NoopIOSessionStrategy;
import org.apache.http.nio.conn.SchemeIOSessionStrategy;
import org.apache.http.nio.conn.ssl.SSLIOSessionStrategy;

import javax.net.ssl.SSLContext;
import javax.net.ssl.SSLException;
import javax.net.ssl.SSLSession;
import javax.net.ssl.SSLSocket;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.security.cert.CertificateException;
import java.security.cert.X509Certificate;

public class Test
{
    private static final DynamicIntProperty MAX_TOTAL_CONNECTIONS = DynamicPropertyFactory.getInstance().getIntProperty("X.total.connections", 40);
    private static final DynamicIntProperty ROUTE_CONNECTIONS = DynamicPropertyFactory.getInstance().getIntProperty("X.total.connections", 40);
    private static final DynamicIntProperty CONNECT_TIMEOUT = DynamicPropertyFactory.getInstance().getIntProperty("X.connect.timeout", 60000);
    private static final DynamicIntProperty SOCKET_TIMEOUT = DynamicPropertyFactory.getInstance().getIntProperty("X.socket.timeout", -1);
    private static final DynamicIntProperty CONNECTION_REQUEST_TIMEOUT = DynamicPropertyFactory.getInstance().getIntProperty("X.connectionrequest.timeout", 60000);
    private static final DynamicBooleanProperty STALE_CONNECTION_CHECK = DynamicPropertyFactory.getInstance().getBooleanProperty("X.checkconnection", true);

    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception
    {

        SSLContext sslcontext = SSLContexts.custom()
                .useTLS()
                .loadTrustMaterial(null, new TrustStrategy()
                {
                    @Override
                    public boolean isTrusted(X509Certificate[] chain, String authType) throws CertificateException
                    {
                        return true;
                    }
                })
                .build();
        SSLIOSessionStrategy sslSessionStrategy = new SSLIOSessionStrategy(sslcontext, new AllowAll());

        Registry<SchemeIOSessionStrategy> sessionStrategyRegistry = RegistryBuilder.<SchemeIOSessionStrategy>create()
                .register("http", NoopIOSessionStrategy.INSTANCE)
                .register("https", sslSessionStrategy)
                .build();

        DefaultConnectingIOReactor ioReactor = new DefaultConnectingIOReactor(IOReactorConfig.DEFAULT);
        PoolingNHttpClientConnectionManager connectionManager = new PoolingNHttpClientConnectionManager(ioReactor, sessionStrategyRegistry);
        connectionManager.setMaxTotal(MAX_TOTAL_CONNECTIONS.get());
        connectionManager.setDefaultMaxPerRoute(ROUTE_CONNECTIONS.get());

        RequestConfig requestConfig = RequestConfig.custom()
                .setSocketTimeout(SOCKET_TIMEOUT.get())
                .setConnectTimeout(CONNECT_TIMEOUT.get())
                .setConnectionRequestTimeout(CONNECTION_REQUEST_TIMEOUT.get())
                .setStaleConnectionCheckEnabled(STALE_CONNECTION_CHECK.get())
                .build();

        CloseableHttpAsyncClient httpClient = HttpAsyncClients.custom()
                .setSSLStrategy(sslSessionStrategy)
                .setConnectionManager(connectionManager)
                .setDefaultRequestConfig(requestConfig)
                .build();

        httpClient.start();

        // use httpClient...
    }

    private static class AllowAll implements X509HostnameVerifier
    {
        @Override
        public void verify(String s, SSLSocket sslSocket) throws IOException
        {}

        @Override
        public void verify(String s, X509Certificate x509Certificate) throws SSLException {}

        @Override
        public void verify(String s, String[] strings, String[] strings2) throws SSLException
        {}

        @Override
        public boolean verify(String s, SSLSession sslSession)
        {
            return true;
        }
    }
}