SSLHandshakeException talking to a https Web service using Spring WebServiceTemplate

[Arjun Reddy]

I am getting the below error talking to a https web service.

  org.springframework.ws.client.WebServiceIOException: I/O error:   
sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed:  
sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid 
certification path to requested target; nested exception is 
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

I am using spring's WebServiceTemplate and below's my xml configuration for it

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"     
xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"
xmlns:sws="http://www.springframework.org/schema/web-services"
xmlns:oxm="http://www.springframework.org/schema/oxm"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans 
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/web-services
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/web-services/web-services-2.0.xsd
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/oxm 
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/oxm/spring-oxm-1.5.xsd">

<bean id="webServiceTemplate"
class="org.springframework.ws.client.core.WebServiceTemplate"
p:marshaller-ref="jaxbMarshaller" 
p:unmarshaller-ref="jaxbMarshaller"
p:defaultUri="https://XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"
p:messageSender-ref="messageSender">
<constructor-arg ref="messageFactory" />
</bean>

<bean id="messageSender"
class="org.springframework.ws.transport.http.CommonsHttpMessageSender" />

 <!-- <bean id="messageSender"
class="org.springframework.ws.transport.http.HttpsUrlConnectionMessageSender" /> -->

<bean id="messageFactory"
class="org.springframework.ws.soap.saaj.SaajSoapMessageFactory" />

<bean id="jaxbMarshaller" class="org.springframework.oxm.jaxb.Jaxb2Marshaller"
p:contextPath="com.test.schemas" />

</beans>

I am able to hit the service from soapui but not from the sample java code I wrote. Should we have received some security certificates from the 3'rd party wsdl folks? I tried getting the server's certificate (Following this article - mkyong.com/webservices/jax-ws/…) and adding it to my jdk trust store but I am getting the below error now - org.springframework.ws.client.WebServiceTransportException: Precondition Failed [412]

Could some one please point me to why this is happening and how I can resolve this?

Thanks

[Arjun Reddy]

Anybody?

Thanks