How To Use Client Side Certificate to access the SOAP service

Question

HI,
I am client side and need to access a remote SOAP server side using a certificate.
I don't know how to add the certificate in my Java code, although I can get it using X509Certificate. The following is my code.
Thanks for any help
public class Dash911 {
public static void main(String args[]) throws IOException {
try {
     //I have a Cert class that generate the cert          
X509Certificate certificate = (new Cert()).getCertificate();
String targetURI= "http://schemas.ecs.telefinity.com/webservices/postal/";
String methodName = "FindStreet";
String encodingStyleURI = Constants.NS_URI_SOAP_ENC;
Vector params = new Vector();
     String[] names = {"Westcorp", "35805"};
     params.addElement(new Parameter("names", names.getClass(), names, null));
     String endpointURL = "https://prototype.test.telefinity.com/integrationprovisioning/postal.asmx";
     makeCall(targetURI, methodName, encodingStyleURI, null, params, endpointURL);
     } catch (Throwable t) {
     }//main          
Thanks a lot

Answer 1

Keystore or Truststore may be rigtht the same file, the matter is how you use it
at each time: if you need to authenticate yourself (no matter wether you are a
server or a client), you will have to initiate your SSLcontext with such file
managed by TrustManager. On the other hand, you just do same but
indicating your file is shall be managed by a KeyManager.