testsuite failure for org.jboss.test.webservice.secure.noenv.TransportOptionsTestCase

A new test was added to JBoss_4_0_3_SP1 which I am having trouble passing. The changelog can be seen here:
http://anoncvs.forge.jboss.com:8080/changelog/~tag=JBoss_4_0_3_SP1/JBoss/

The test error is as follows:

Suite: org.jboss.test.webservice.secure.noenv.TransportOptionsTestCase
Test: testWithoutKeystore
Type: failure
Exception: junit.framework.AssertionFailedError
Message: SocketException expected

The test report gives further information in the stack trace. It?s basically expecting a SocketException but not getting one.

<failure message="SocketException expected" type="junit.framework.Assertion\
FailedError">junit.framework.AssertionFailedError: SocketException expected
at org.jboss.test.webservice.secure.noenv.TransportOptionsTestCase.test\
WithoutKeystore(TransportOptionsTestCase.java:104)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl\
.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAcce\
ssorImpl.java:25)
at junit.extensions.TestDecorator.basicRun(TestDecorator.java:22)
at junit.extensions.TestSetup$1.protect(TestSetup.java:19)
at junit.extensions.TestSetup.run(TestSetup.java:23)
</failure>

Test code snippet:

try

{ String res = port.sayHello("Hello"); assertEquals("'Hello' to you too!", res); }

catch (UndeclaredThrowableException e)

{ if (e.getCause() instanceof SocketException) exception = true; }

assertTrue("SocketException expected", exception);

I?m not seeing anything in the server logs to give me any further clues. I?ve played around with the test adding some assertions, an UndeclaredThrowableException is being thrown

the UndeclaredThrowableException that is being caught in the test case is not a SocketException. The message associated with the Throwable is java.lang.Exception: Received fatal alert: bad_certificate. The error is reproducible on the QA machines with a 1.4 version JDK.