I’ve blogged a long time ago about my problems with Subversion + Certificates and Java with a version higher than u17.

Today the author of SVNKit added a comment to the ticket talking about the problem. The solution is so simple once you know about the following resource. All you need to do is to open your eclipse.ini and add the following entry:

-Dsun.security.ssl.allowUnsafeRenegotiation=true

which makes my eclipse.ini on OS-X look like this:

-startup
../../../plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.1.0.v20100507.jar
--launcher.library
../../../plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.cocoa.macosx.x86_64_1.1.1.R36x_v20100810
-showsplash
org.eclipse.platform
--launcher.XXMaxPermSize
256m
--launcher.defaultAction
openFile
-vmargs
-Xms40m
-Xmx512m
-Xdock:icon=../Resources/Eclipse.icns
-XstartOnFirstThread
-Dorg.eclipse.swt.internal.carbon.smallFonts
-Dsun.security.ssl.allowUnsafeRenegotiation=true

On OS-X you need to open your Eclipse.app using the Context-Menu “Show Package Content”.