TLS not working with Openssl Certs

Question

Hi I have been struggleing with a certificate problem for about two weeks now with no joy. Almost all the forums, tutorials and examples etc. I have tried are simply not working. Without fail I get the following exception or similar:
[Root exception is javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: No trusted certificate found]
Basically I know I have a valid certificate, because when I use an ldap client with just the self generated cacert.pem there are no problems and a TCP dump shows the encrypted data.
My setup is as follows I have an openLDAP server running on Debian. I generated my own certificates as per: http://www.openldap.org/faq/data/cache/185.html
All I want to do now is import these generated certs/keys with keytool, and be able to use theme with TLS.
When importing the certs via java ldap browsers they work fine, but as soon as I try use my own TLS client like the StartTLS.java sample provided by the java tutorial I get the above exception. I'm probably missing some piece of the puzzle.
Please if anyone else knows how to set this up correctly using the certs I have generated via the openldap example above I would really appreciate your help. There are alot of examples pertaining to app servers etc. but nothing I could find to talk to OpenLDAP.
regards
ed

Answer 1

On a similar occation i did extend the javax.net.ssl.X509TrustManager and upon generating the connecton I first did initialized the ssl context with that trust manager.
something like
SSLContext sslContext = SSLContext.getInstance("SSLv3");
MyTrustManager tm = new MyTrustManager(....);
TrustManager tms[] = {tm};
sslContext.init(null, tms, null);     HttpsURLConnection.setDefaultSSLSocketFactory(sslContext.getSocketFactory()); //or on ur corresponding tls connection classdo that before getting any https connection or alike tls connections
In case that does not bring you further, post some stack trace and further settings.