Implement TLS (or SSL) communication

Question

Hi all,
I wish to make a very Keep It Simple and Stupid client server application that will conduct secured communication between the client and the server.
The natural approach would be to use TLS (which supercedes SSL, but is a little new yet) or SSL.
I would like to get some reliable and simple sample code, or alternatively, straight forward documentation which will directly fascilitate adding security to the communication done by my client-server application to be.
Any help would be most welcome.
Regards,
Matan

Answer 1

First read the basic cryptographic architecture in Java http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.2/docs/guide/security/CryptoSpec.html
Then, if you want to implement application level security in the form of one side encrypting and other side decrypting, take a look at Java Cryptography Extension(JCE) http://java.sun.com/products/jce/index-121.html
Else, ff you want to transparently use SSL/TLS, i.e. security above application level, chekc out Java Secure Socket Extension (JSSE) http://java.sun.com/products/jsse/index-102.html Examples are available as a separate download from that page.