No subject alternative DNS name matching hostname.com found

Issue

• We see the following in a java client application trying to access a server over https:

javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: java.security.cert.CertificateException: No subject alternative DNS name matching hostname.com found.
                at sun.security.ssl.Alerts.getSSLException(Unknown Source)
                at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.fatal(Unknown Source)
                at sun.security.ssl.Handshaker.fatalSE(Unknown Source)
                at sun.security.ssl.Handshaker.fatalSE(Unknown Source)
                at sun.security.ssl.ClientHandshaker.serverCertificate(Unknown Source)
                at sun.security.ssl.ClientHandshaker.processMessage(Unknown Source)
                at sun.security.ssl.Handshaker.processLoop(Unknown Source)
                at sun.security.ssl.Handshaker.process_record(Unknown Source)
                at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.readRecord(Unknown Source)
                at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.performInitialHandshake(Unknown Source)
                at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.startHandshake(Unknown Source)
                at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.startHandshake(Unknown Source)
                at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsClient.afterConnect(Unknown Source)
                at sun.net.www.protocol.https.AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.connect(Unknown Source)
                at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getOutputStream0(Unknown Source)
                at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getOutputStream(Unknown Source)
                at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsURLConnectionImpl.getOutputStream(Unknown Source)
                ... 4 more
Caused by: java.security.cert.CertificateException: No subject alternative DNS name matching hostname.com found.
                at sun.security.util.HostnameChecker.matchDNS(Unknown Source)
                at sun.security.util.HostnameChecker.match(Unknown Source)
                at sun.security.ssl.X509TrustManagerImpl.checkIdentity(Unknown Source)
                at sun.security.ssl.X509TrustManagerImpl.checkIdentity(Unknown Source)
                at sun.security.ssl.X509TrustManagerImpl.checkTrusted(Unknown Source)
                at sun.security.ssl.X509TrustManagerImpl.checkServerTrusted(Unknown Source)
                ... 19 more