On a side note if you are new to Axis then I recommend that you use Axis2 instead of Axis.
Thanks, Keith. On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 2:39 AM, james a. cubeta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I am both new to Axis and new to this mailing list, so I apologize in > advance if my questions are simple or have been covered... > > I am trying to use Axis 1.4 to develop a simple application that will test > a web service that is deployed on a private network. As a first step, I am > trying to generate stub code using the WSDL2Java tool. Because the server > is https & uses an IP only, my command line resembles this: > > java org.apache.axis.wsdl.WSDL2Java --username user --password pass > https://192.168.1.150:8443/example-ws/services/SimpleExample?wsdl > > When I run this, I get the following exception: > > javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: > sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed: > sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find > valid certification path to requested target > <exception stack truncated> > > Questions: > > 1. I assume that the reason this is happening is because the server is > using a self-signed certificate, and the JVM cannot validate it. Is this > assumption correct? > > 2. How can I get around this problem? (Note that I do not have > administrative access to the server, so making changes on that end is > probably not possible). > > Thanks in advance for any help or references, > James > > -- > james a. cubeta > -- Keith Chapman Senior Software Engineer WSO2 Inc. Oxygenating the Web Service Platform. http://wso2.org/ blog: http://www.keith-chapman.org