SSLSocket - How its work

Can somebody tell me how the SSLSocket works. Is it nesserry to use a certificate. ?

I want my applet to communicate with the server application running on the server. Currently I am using Socket and serversocket classes , I want to change it to SSLSocket. ? How will i do that ?

Tomy

[303 byte] By [tomyma] at [2007-9-27 6:50:38]