Troubleshooting JSSE Sample Code

One of the most common problems people have in using JSSE is when the JSSE receives a certificate that is unknown to the mechanism that makes trust decisions. If an unknown certificate is received, the trust mechanism will throw an exception saying that the certificate is untrusted. Make sure that the correct trust store is being used, and that the JSSE is installed and configured correctly.

If you are using the "localhost" or "duke" credentials, be sure that you have correctly specified the location of the samplecacerts file, otherwise your application will not work. (See Sample Truststores for more information.)

The SSL debug mechanism can be used to investigate such trust problems. See the implementation documentation for more information about this subject.