Using the Java Samples as Reference

The following code fragment from the vSphere Management SDK shows another implementation of the server connection. You can use code similar to this sample in the vSphere Web Services SDK (path below) to get a session token for your client application.

SDK/vsphere-ws/java/JAX-WS/samples/com/vmware/vm/VMPromoteDisks.java

Obtaining a Session Token - Code Fragments from VMPromoteDisks.java

   ...
   private static String cookieValue = "";
   private static Map headers = new HashMap();
   ...
   private static void trustAllHttpsCertificates()
      throws Exception {

      javax.net.ssl.TrustManager[] trustAllCerts = new javax.net.ssl.TrustManager[1];
      javax.net.ssl.TrustManager tm = new TrustAllTrustManager();
      trustAllCerts[0] = tm;
      javax.net.ssl.SSLContext sc = javax.net.ssl.SSLContext.getInstance("SSL");
      javax.net.ssl.SSLSessionContext sslsc = sc.getServerSessionContext();
      sslsc.setSessionTimeout(0);
      sc.init(null, trustAllCerts, null);
      javax.net.ssl.HttpsURLConnection.setDefaultSSLSocketFactory(sc.getSocketFactory());
   }
   ...
   private static void connect()
      throws Exception {

      HostnameVerifier hv = new HostnameVerifier() {
         public boolean verify(String urlHostName, SSLSession session) {
            return true;
         }
      };
      trustAllHttpsCertificates();
      HttpsURLConnection.setDefaultHostnameVerifier(hv);

      SVC_INST_REF.setType(SVC_INST_NAME);
      SVC_INST_REF.setValue(SVC_INST_NAME);

      vimService = new VimService();
      vimPort = vimService.getVimPort();
      Map<String, Object> ctxt =
         ((BindingProvider) vimPort).getRequestContext();

      ctxt.put(BindingProvider.ENDPOINT_ADDRESS_PROPERTY, url);
      ctxt.put(BindingProvider.SESSION_MAINTAIN_PROPERTY, true);

      serviceContent = vimPort.retrieveServiceContent(SVC_INST_REF);
      headers =
         (Map) ((BindingProvider) vimPort).getResponseContext().get(
                 MessageContext.HTTP_RESPONSE_HEADERS);
      vimPort.login(serviceContent.getSessionManager(),
                    userName,
                    password, null);
      isConnected = true;

      propCollectorRef = serviceContent.getPropertyCollector();
      rootRef = serviceContent.getRootFolder();
   }
   ...