soap client, accept ssl certificates?

Hi,

I apologize if this question is uninformed. I am very new to SOAP.

i'm writing a client to connect to a vendor-provided server via soap.
communication is over https and the server has a self-signed
certificate. when i try to connect to the server, i get the following
error:

Exception in thread "main" [SOAPException: faultCode=SOAP-ENV:Client;
msg=Error opening socket: javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException:
sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: No trusted certificate
found; targetException=java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Error
opening socket: javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException:
sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: No trusted certificate found]

at
org.apache.soap.transport.http.SOAPHTTPConnection.send(SOAPHTTPConnection.java:354)

at org.apache.soap.rpc.Call.invoke(Call.java:248)

at samples.stockquote.GetQuote.main(GetQuote.java:106)

I have no way of getting the certificate to add to my client-side
certs. is there a way to get my client to obtain the certificate from
the server or to always trust the server? thanks, any help is
appreciated.

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