JSC2 and Gmail and SSLHandshakeException

Question

I've been working on this for 8 hours straight. Now I will crawl into a video game because I suck.
I copied the JSC code from a standalone app that works. It's as exactly the same as the code can be.
I keep getting this exception:
javax.mail.MessagingException: Exception reading response;
nested exception is: javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException:
sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed:
sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find
valid certification path to requested target////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Here is my JSC2 code:
    private static final String SMTP_HOST_NAME = "smtp.gmail.com";
    private static final String SMTP_PORT = "465";
    private static final String emailMsgTxt = "Test Message Contents";
    private static final String emailSubjectTxt = "A test from gmail";
    private static final String emailFromAddress = "[email protected]";
    private static final String SSL_FACTORY = "javax.net.ssl.SSLSocketFactory";
    private static final String[] sendTo = { "[email protected]"};
    public String button1_action() {
        // this isn't needed to reproduce error
        Security.addProvider(new com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.Provider());
        try {
            sendSSLMessage(sendTo, emailSubjectTxt,
                    emailMsgTxt, emailFromAddress);
            System.out.println("Sucessfully Sent mail to All Users");
        }catch (Exception e) {
            this.fatal(e + "");
        return null;
    public void sendSSLMessage(String recipients[], String subject,
            String message, String from) throws MessagingException {
        boolean debug = true;
        Properties props = new Properties();
        props.put("mail.smtp.host", SMTP_HOST_NAME);
        props.put("mail.smtp.auth", "true");
        props.put("mail.debug", "true");
        props.put("mail.smtp.port", SMTP_PORT);
        props.put("mail.smtp.socketFactory.port", SMTP_PORT);
        props.put("mail.smtp.socketFactory.class", SSL_FACTORY);
        props.put("mail.smtp.socketFactory.fallback", "false");
        Session session = Session.getInstance(props,
                new javax.mail.Authenticator() {
            protected PasswordAuthentication getPasswordAuthentication() {
                return new PasswordAuthentication("moviedocs", "p4ssw0rd");
        session.setDebug(debug);
        Message msg = new MimeMessage(session);
        InternetAddress addressFrom = new InternetAddress(from);
        msg.setFrom(addressFrom);
        InternetAddress[] addressTo = new InternetAddress[recipients.length];
        for (int i = 0; i < recipients.length; i++) {
            addressTo[i] = new InternetAddress(recipients);
msg.setRecipients(Message.RecipientType.TO, addressTo);
// Setting the Subject and Content Type
msg.setSubject(subject);
msg.setContent(message, "text/plain");
Transport.send(msg);
This is at the bottom of my server.policy file
grant {
     // javamail
    permission java.security.SecurityPermission "insertProvider.SunJSSE";
This is in my logs:
0:14.244-0700|
DEBUG: setDebug: JavaMail version 1.3.2|#]
0:14.259-0700|
DEBUG: getProvider() returning javax.mail.Provider[TRANSPORT,smtp,com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport,Sun Microsystems, Inc]|#]
0:14.259-0700|
DEBUG SMTP: useEhlo true, useAuth true|#]
0:14.259-0700|
DEBUG SMTP: useEhlo true, useAuth true|#]
0:14.259-0700|
DEBUG SMTP: trying to connect to host "smtp.gmail.com", port 465, isSSL false|#]
0:14.666-0700|
DEBUG SMTP: exception reading response: javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target|#]------------------------------
standalone app ends with:
DEBUG SMTP: trying to connect to host "smtp.gmail.com", port 465, isSSL false
220 mx.gmail.com ESMTP e10sm6784123qbe
DEBUG SMTP: connected to host "smtp.gmail.com", port: 465///////////////////
Standalone version is JavaMail version 1.3.3
Why the SSLHandshakeException PKIX exception?

Answer 1

I'm not an SSL expert but jamesrome is and he's done lots with Creator and SSL. Please check out this thread http://forum.sun.com/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=62896&messageID=360013
The second post in his thread refers to changing the app server config. You'll need to log into the app server admin console. On Creator 2 update 1, this can be found at http://localhost:25848, userid=admin,password=adminadmin
In the admin console, on the left nav bar, go to Configuration->HTTP Service->HTTP Listeners and click on http-listener-2.
Cheers!
-David