Oracle JCE problem

Question

Hi,
I am recently trying to enable SSL support for OAS which I sucessfully managed. As a next step I wanted to get mutual authentication up and running. Which also I got setup. After this my issues started to popup.
I used the oracle wallet manager to create self signed certificates to use in the setup. Java's JCE I found is no good with PKCS12 that oracle wallet manager uses. So I went for an alternative from Bouncy Castle (BC). It works fine but only for a wierd case which is completely wrong. What goes wrong with BC is that is does not find the truststore in the client wallet (although it is there). But if as a truststore I give the path to the server's wallet which contains the server's certificate, everything works fine. Any idea what could be causing this. I just figured it must be some other format of the pKCS12 certificate the Oracle wallet manager generates and the BC JCE is reading.
Then I found out at java forums someone saying that phaos was excellent for PKCS12 certificates. Going there I found out its oracle's sdk now and seeing that I though using oracle's JCE will solve all my incompatability problem. Anyways turns out the Oracle JCE uses the JCE 1.2.1 framework which works with the JDK 1.2 uptil 1.3. Any when I use it with the my JDK 5.0, I get a Stackoverflow exception. I need to use jdk 5 and I need a solution for https. Any suggestions of how should I proceed.
Regards,
Ahsan

Answer 1

Hi,
Using eclipse I changed the jre environment to 1.2 and 1.3 to see if that was really the problem. But I still get the stack overflow exception. I paste a portion of this exception as below and if anyone is interested I can post the complete stack trace as well :
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.StackOverflowError
at sun.reflect.GeneratedConstructorAccessor2.newInstance(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:494)
at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Class.java:350)
at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:303)
at java.security.Provider$Service.newInstance(Provider.java:1130)
at sun.security.jca.GetInstance.getInstance(GetInstance.java:220)
at sun.security.jca.GetInstance.getInstance(GetInstance.java:147)
at java.security.SecureRandom.getInstance(SecureRandom.java:251)
at java.security.SecureRandom.getDefaultPRNG(SecureRandom.java:187)
at java.security.SecureRandom.<init>(SecureRandom.java:150)
at com.phaos.crypto.SREntropySource.<init>(SREntropySource)
at com.phaos.crypto.EntropySource.getDefault(EntropySource)
at com.phaos.jce.provider.PhaosSecureRandomSpi.<init>(Unknown Source)
at com.phaos.jce.provider.MD5SecureRandomSpi.<init>(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedConstructorAccessor2.newInstance(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:303)
at java.security.Provider$Service.newInstance(Provider.java:1130)
at sun.security.jca.GetInstance.getInstance(GetInstance.java:220)
at sun.security.jca.GetInstance.getInstance(GetInstance.java:147)
at java.security.SecureRandom.getInstance(SecureRandom.java:251)
at java.security.SecureRandom.getDefaultPRNG(SecureRandom.java:187)
at java.security.SecureRandom.<init>(SecureRandom.java:150)
at com.phaos.crypto.SREntropySource.<init>(SREntropySource)
at com.phaos.crypto.EntropySource.getDefault(EntropySource)
at com.phaos.jce.provider.PhaosSecureRandomSpi.<init>(Unknown Source)
at com.phaos.jce.provider.MD5SecureRandomSpi.<init>(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedConstructorAccessor2.newInstance(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:494)
at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Class.java:350)
Any ideas what I am doing wrong.
Regards,
Ahsan.
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