SDK JAVA Sample EXCEPTION due to HandshakeException

I am trying to run the Orion SDK Java sample to connect to our Orion server and perform a simple query.

It keeps returning the exception

javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target>

http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/}Server.userException

javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target

The "Orion SDK.pdf" mentions:

See the details of these functions below, starting with obtaining a SWIS client object, as the disableCertificateValidation() function is somewhat verbose and not presented here.

so I added the following method in my main, before calling <InformationService swis = getSwisClient("My-IP-Address", "my-login", "my-pass");>

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public static void disableCertificateValidation() {
   // Create a trust manager that does not validate certificate chains
   TrustManager[] trustAllCerts = new TrustManager[] {
    new X509TrustManager() {
     public X509Certificate[] getAcceptedIssuers() {
      return new X509Certificate[0];
     }
     public void checkClientTrusted(X509Certificate[] certs, String authType) {}
     public void checkServerTrusted(X509Certificate[] certs, String authType) {}
    }};

   // Ignore differences between given hostname and certificate hostname
   HostnameVerifier hv = new HostnameVerifier() {
    public boolean verify(String hostname, SSLSession session) { return true; }
   };

   // Install the all-trusting trust manager
   try {
    SSLContext sc = SSLContext.getInstance("SSL");
    sc.init(null, trustAllCerts, new SecureRandom());
    HttpsURLConnection.setDefaultSSLSocketFactory(sc.getSocketFactory());
    HttpsURLConnection.setDefaultHostnameVerifier(hv);
   } catch (Exception e) {}

} // End of disableCertificateValidation()

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but it does not seem to help.

Once the locator.setBasicHttpBinding_InformationServiceEndpointAddress(address); is called it does not seem to matter and still looks for valid cert.

Ideas????

Thank you