code: private SSLSocketFactory getSSLSocketFactory() throws Exception {
          SSLSocketFactory sslSF = null;
          Object sslConfig = this.sslConfig.getService();
          if(sslConfig != null) {
              // Reflectively invoke this operation to a helper class because the classes needed to perform
              // this operation are dynamically imported, depending on if the ssl-1.0 feature is enabled.
              Class<?> SSLHelper = Class.forName("com.ibm.ws.cloudant.internal.SSLHelper");
              sslSF = (SSLSocketFactory) SSLHelper.getMethod("getSSLSocketFactory", Object.class).invoke(null, sslConfig);
          }
          return sslSF;
      }
docs: Get an ssl socket factory, if configured