Provide a simpler way to determine path of primary cacert

[devcamcar]

I've been struggling a bit trying to find the easiest and most cross platform appropriate way to find the path of the primary cacert. This is normally $JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/security/cacert, but not always.

For instance, on Centos 6.4 this ends up being $JAVA_HOME/jre-openjdk/lib/security/cacert. It would be great if this cookbook provided this.

[carmstrong]

If you find a reliable way and code it up, please open a pull request for https://github.com/socrata-cookbooks/java-libraries - we would like that cookbook to be a collection of definitions and resources that are useful for people who use Java. This cookbook is mainly for installing the JDK/JRE.

[devcamcar]

Hi @carmstrong, I do have some useful code to contribute here, though I noticed the java-libraries repo is empty. Is that where I should contribute this or should I contribute it to the socrata-cookbooks/java repo for the time being until there are enough utility methods to warrant the second repo?

[carmstrong]

@devcamcar we'd like anything beyond installing and maintaining the JDK itself to be in the java-libraries cookbook. If you could contribute your cert code as a library or resource, we'll cut an initial release of that cookbook. Thanks!

[carmstrong]

@devcamcar I just published the java-libraries cookbook to the community site: http://community.opscode.com/cookbooks/java-libraries

Would love to have more contributions if you're up for it!

[erichelgeson]

Closing as it looks like the basics here are covered here in java-libraries.

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