WSDL, SOAP & lots of other things I don't know about.

10g on Win2K

The question (I think): Is it possible to 'get' XML data from a WSDL file behind an https server directly into Oracle?

The background: another department in my company have been trying to do this on & off for over 5 months, but using Java to get the data before pumping it out to the database. The problem they're having is the WSDL is on an https server, & they can't get Java/Tomcat to work with the digital certificates. They can see the WSDL fine using a browser, so they know the certificate's ok, but can't get to it with Java.

As the whole purpose is to get the data (financial stuff such as stock prices) into Oracle, I wonder if it's possible to do this directly from Oracle? Unfortunately I know nothing about WSDL, SOAP, XMLSpy or any of the other bunches of letters being thrown around when I first heard of the problem yesterday. This makes it a bit hard to Google as I don't really know what questions I should be asking, & have plenty of my own work to do without researching stuff for other people.

If the question doesn't make sense, or there's nowhere near enough information to go on, don't worry about it. But if it's an "oh yes we do that all the time" kind of thing, I'd appreciate any pointers, or even just a "yes it can be done in Oracle" or "not a chance".

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Cheers, Preston.