Error accessing a Web Service with SSL

Question

I have a program that is supposed to send a file to a web service, which requires an SSL connection. I run the program as follows:

SET JAVA_HOME=C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_07
SET com.ibm.SSL.ConfigURL=ssl.client.props
"%JAVA_HOME%\bin\java" -cp ".;Test.jar" ca.mypackage.Main

This was works fine, but when I change the first line to

SET JAVA_HOME=C:\Program Files\IBM\SDP\runtimes\base_v7\java\jre

I get the following error:

com.sun.xml.internal.ws.client.ClientTransportException: HTTP transport error: java.net.SocketException: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Cannot find the specified class com.ibm.websphere.ssl.protocol.SSLSocketFactory
at com.sun.xml.internal.ws.transport.http.client.HttpClientTransport.getOutput(HttpClientTransport.java:119)
at com.sun.xml.internal.ws.transport.http.client.HttpTransportPipe.process(HttpTransportPipe.java:140)
at com.sun.xml.internal.ws.transport.http.client.HttpTransportPipe.processRequest(HttpTransportPipe.java:86)
at com.sun.xml.internal.ws.api.pipe.Fiber.__doRun(Fiber.java:593)
at com.sun.xml.internal.ws.api.pipe.Fiber._doRun(Fiber.java:552)
at com.sun.xml.internal.ws.api.pipe.Fiber.doRun(Fiber.java:537)
at com.sun.xml.internal.ws.api.pipe.Fiber.runSync(Fiber.java:434)
at com.sun.xml.internal.ws.client.Stub.process(Stub.java:247)
at com.sun.xml.internal.ws.client.sei.SEIStub.doProcess(SEIStub.java:132)
at com.sun.xml.internal.ws.client.sei.SyncMethodHandler.invoke(SyncMethodHandler.java:242)
at com.sun.xml.internal.ws.client.sei.SyncMethodHandler.invoke(SyncMethodHandler.java:222)
at com.sun.xml.internal.ws.client.sei.SEIStub.invoke(SEIStub.java:115)
at $Proxy26.fileSubmit(Unknown Source)
at com.testing.TestingSoapProxy.fileSubmit(TestingSoapProxy.java:81)
at ca.mypackage.Main.main(Main.java:63)
Caused by: java.net.SocketException: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Cannot find the specified class com.ibm.websphere.ssl.protocol.SSLSocketFactory
at javax.net.ssl.DefaultSSLSocketFactory.a(SSLSocketFactory.java:7)
at javax.net.ssl.DefaultSSLSocketFactory.createSocket(SSLSocketFactory.java:1)
at com.ibm.net.ssl.www2.protocol.https.c.afterConnect(c.java:110)
at com.ibm.net.ssl.www2.protocol.https.d.connect(d.java:14)
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getOutputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:902)
at com.ibm.net.ssl.www2.protocol.https.b.getOutputStream(b.java:86)
at com.sun.xml.internal.ws.transport.http.client.HttpClientTransport.getOutput(HttpClientTransport.java:107)
... 14 more
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Cannot find the specified class com.ibm.websphere.ssl.protocol.SSLSocketFactory
at javax.net.ssl.SSLJsseUtil.b(SSLJsseUtil.java:20)
at javax.net.ssl.SSLSocketFactory.getDefault(SSLSocketFactory.java:36)
at javax.net.ssl.HttpsURLConnection.getDefaultSSLSocketFactory(HttpsURLConnection.java:16)
at javax.net.ssl.HttpsURLConnection.<init>(HttpsURLConnection.java:36)
at com.ibm.net.ssl.www2.protocol.https.b.<init>(b.java:1)
at com.ibm.net.ssl.www2.protocol.https.Handler.openConnection(Handler.java:11)
at java.net.URL.openConnection(URL.java:995)
at com.sun.xml.internal.ws.api.EndpointAddress.openConnection(EndpointAddress.java:206)
at com.sun.xml.internal.ws.transport.http.client.HttpClientTransport.createHttpConnection(HttpClientTransport.java:277)
at com.sun.xml.internal.ws.transport.http.client.HttpClientTransport.getOutput(HttpClientTransport.java:103)
... 14 more

So it seems that this problem would be related to the JRE I'm using, but what doesn't seem to make sense is that the non-IBM JRE works fine, but the IBM JRE does not. Any ideas, or suggestions?

Answer 1

If your non IBM jre is sun, then it already comes with SSL classes implementation packaged along with it.

It seems the IBM jre is not containing SSL implementation classes at all.

Answer 2

Try adding these two lines somewhere in your setup code:

Security.setProperty("ssl.SocketFactory.provider", "com.ibm.jsse2.SSLSocketFactoryImpl");
Security.setProperty("ssl.ServerSocketFactory.provider", "com.ibm.jsse2.SSLServerSocketFactoryImpl");