How to invoke a webservice running on https

[chandra shekar yeruva]

Hi ,

Is there any special mechanism required to invoke the web service running on https server ?
If needed please tell me how to invoke the same?

thanks
Chandra.

[Srikanth Kumar]

You have to set the system properties to load the trusted certificates which java will trust. and also provide the password for keystore file.

            System.setProperty(
                    "javax.net.ssl.trustStore", "../jre/lib/security/cacerts"); 
            System.setProperty("javax.net.ssl.trustStorePassword", "changeit");

Then create the configuration context object and locate where the rampart and rahasa are located
For example if rampart and rahas modules are in xyz/web-inf/modules give path till web-inf

           configurationContext = ConfigurationContextFactory.createConfigurationContextFromFileSystem(
                    "../WEB-INF", null);

Create stub and pass the configuration context and get the service client

            // Create a stub for service invocations.
            securedStub = new MyServiceStub(configurationContext);

            // Get the service client from the stub.
            serviceClient = securedStub._getServiceClient();

Engage rampart on the clients machine and give the certificate details through service client options

            // engage the Rampart module.
            serviceClient.engageModule("rampart");
            Options options = serviceClient.getOptions();
            options.setUserName("SecuredCertificateName");
            options.setPassword("certificatePassword");

and make a call through the secured stub.

 response = securedStub.getXxxxxxxx(request);