Java and SSL Sockets help

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Hey guys, i'm wondering if anyones any good with jsse and can give me an hour or two of there time (I don't mind re-embursing at a reasonable rate) to help sorting out some problems i'm having creating a client to connect to an existing apachi server

Cheers
Sam

edit: i'll add some more info -

Basically its a SOAP server that takes in messages, i have it all working over http and https however i'm trying to get a SSL connection to it working.

I have the cert for the server in the security container (/lib/security) of the jre and i'm using the following code to form the connection:

InetAddress addr = InetAddress.getByName(hostname);
            SSLSocketFactory sslsocketfactory = (SSLSocketFactory) SSLSocketFactory.getDefault();
            [b]SSLSocket socket = (SSLSocket) sslsocketfactory.createSocket(addr, port);[/b]
            socket.setSoTimeout(120000);
            String path = "/servlet/SomeServlet";
            BufferedWriter wr = new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(socket.getOutputStream(), "UTF8"));

and i just keep getting the following error

java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out: connect
	at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method)
	at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.doConnect(PlainSocketImpl.java:305)
	at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(PlainSocketImpl.java:171)
	at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:158)
	at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:452)
	at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.connect(DashoA6275)
	at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.<init>(DashoA6275)
	at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLSocketFactoryImpl.createSocket(DashoA6275)
	at com.cogent.SOAP.SoapSend.runReqT(SoapSend.java:197)
	at com.cogent.SOAP.SoapSend.run(SoapSend.java:49)

(197 is the bolded line)