Yeah - you need to include the jsse.jar, jcert.jar and jnet.jar from Sun. The exception you're getting is cause the JDK doesn't contain support for URLs starting with https.. unknown protocol.. those 3 jar files are required to do that.
> Has anyone tried https in the rpcrouter and messagerouter URL? > If I put https instead of http, the sample program gives me > exceptions. > (I have apache/mod_ssl, tomcat SSL enabled and > https://localhost:4422/soap/admin/ works fine ).