SSL and J2EE - Problems with the tutorial

Question

I'm trying to make a small amendment to the bank application ('Duke's Bank') which is the main example in the J2EE tutorial. Nothing complicated: just add a simple 'enrollment' page which will be secured through SSL.
The aim is to demonstrate that J2EE makes it very easy to put a session over a secure SSL channel.
As I read the documentation, this should be a fairly simple thing to configure. Add a 'CONFIDENTIAL' network security requirement to the WAR component through the deploytool and import a server certificate using keytool. I've done all that and the thing won't work.
After adding the 'CONFIDENTIAL' requirement I find that using the 'http' protocol serves up a server certificate which I can choose to trust through by IE6.0 browser. But then the application freezes. If I use the 'https' protocol the application freezes without even bothering about the certificate.
I wonder if the J2EE tutorial setup is so tightly packaged that configuring it for SSL involves a number of undocumented steps related to ports, keystores and security providers. Explaining it all within the context of the tutorial would throw it out of scope so we're not really meant to do things like adding SSL.
This is a big deal for us -- we're trying to decide if J2EE will be our application platform over the next five years or so. Any assistance here will be gratefully received.
WR

Answer 1

The Duke's Bank tutorial can be found at:
http://java.sun.com/j2ee/tutorial/1_3-fcs/
It is the last chapter of the tutorial, under the "Putting it All Together" section.
Andy