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

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");