Extracting the Private Key from a Java Keystore

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So you want to move away from using Tomcat and want to extract the server private key. Here's what you need to do:

 keytool -importkeystore -srckeystore server.jks -destkeystore server.pkcs -srcstoretype JKS -deststoretype PKCS12
 openssl pkcs12 -in thekeystore.p12 -nocerts -nodes -out serverkey.pem

serverkey.pem no contains your server private key.