TLS in JVM, does it work?

What’s the state of TLS support in 9.0.1fp5 on the server, calling out of the server to another server?

I’m trying to conduct a Web service over TLS and it hasn’t gone very well so far.

Are there special switches to throw to get it working?

Second question – what if I still have to conduct SSLV3 requests to another server – can I make the request explicitly for SSLV3 and have it go through?