Actually my TrustManager class do gets called. However the SSL handshake process seems to be quite length(and I don't understand much of the details) and eventually fails with above exception. For WS stack, I am using whatever comes default with jboss 4.2.3. Am using "default" server configuration. My web-service client code runs from an MDB. If anybody is interested I can send the long "SSL,handshake" debug log. I really need help here. Have tried various things over last couple of days but without luck. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4181093#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...