Soap WS Connection refused - web-services

Question

I'm trying to connect to a SOAP webserver, I was given a certificate but I get the below exception.
I did:
$openssl pkcs12 -in cert.pfx -out certificate.cer -nodes
$keytool -import -alias webserver -file certificate.cer
Certificate was added to keystore
I have a junit test that calls the remote server with these JVM options:
-ea -Djavax.net.debug=all -Dcom.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.client.HttpTransportPipe.dump=true
-Dcom.sun.xml.internal.ws.transport.http.client.HttpTransportPipe.dump=true
-Dcom.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.HttpAdapter.dump=true
-Dcom.sun.xml.internal.ws.transport.http.HttpAdapter.dump=true
-Djavax.net.ssl.trustStore=certificate.cer
-Djavax.net.ssl.trustStoreType=PEM
-Djavax.net.ssl.trustStorePassword=pwd
-Djavax.net.ssl.keyStore=certificate.cer
-Djavax.net.ssl.keyStoreType=PEM
-Djavax.net.ssl.keyStorePassword=pwd
the remote call is done using:
authenticationService.getAuthenticationServiceSoap().authenticateWithPasswordAuth(clientId, username, password);
where the client I'm using has got these annotations:
#WebServiceClient
public class AuthenticationService extends Service {
and
#WebEndpoint(name = "AuthenticationServiceSoap")
public AuthenticationServiceSoap getAuthenticationServiceSoap()
I don't do anything else code wise, and I get the below Exception:
I don't even understand if java is trying to use https or no.
---[HTTP request - http://..../Soap/AuthenticationService.asmx]--- Accept: [text/xml, multipart/related] Content-Type: [text/xml;
charset=utf-8] SOAPAction:
["http://....../AuthenticateWithPasswordAuth"] User-Agent: [JAX-WS RI
2.2.4-b01]
Caused by: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused at
java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method) at
java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.doConnect(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:339)
at
java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:200)
at
java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connect(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:182)
at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.java:392) at
java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:579) at
java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:528) at
sun.net.NetworkClient.doConnect(NetworkClient.java:180) at
sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(HttpClient.java:432) at
sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(HttpClient.java:527) at
sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.(HttpClient.java:211) at
sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.New(HttpClient.java:308) at
sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.New(HttpClient.java:326) at
sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getNewHttpClient(HttpURLConnection.java:997)
at
sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.plainConnect(HttpURLConnection.java:976)
at
sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.connect(HttpURLConnection.java:851)
at
sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getOutputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:1092)
at
com.sun.xml.internal.ws.transport.http.client.HttpClientTransport.getOutput(HttpClientTransport.java:105)