Environment
Migration Tool Kit
Situation
Remote host closed connection during handshake at com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.client.Http
Resolution
Java 7 defaults to TLS 1.0, which can cause this error when that protocol is not accepted.
Add the following to the Java options (Tomcat was running Java 7.)
-Dhttps.protocols=TLSv1.1,TLSv1.2
Additional Information
This article was originally published in the GWAVA knowledgebase as article ID 2847.