John if my understanding is correct.
You are creating a web service and deployed the same in axis in tomcat. Right?
You can use the tomcat/conf/server.xml file to refer the keystore file.
<Connector port="8443" protocol="HTTP/1.1" SSLEnabled="true"
maxThreads="150" scheme="https" secure="true"
clientAuth="false" sslProtocol="TLS" keyAlias="myKey" keystoreFile="keystore.ks" keypass="tomcat"/>
And at client side, you can use set the following:
System.setProperty("javax.net.ssl.trustStore", url.getPath());
System.setProperty("javax.net.ssl.trustStorePassword", "changeit");
Use your service with HTTPs and rest of the services on HTTP.