ValidationException When Running wsimport

Question

I am trying to generate client code for a wsdl using the JAX-WS RI wsimport tool. When I ran the it I get this error:

[ERROR] sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target

I came across this blog which has a neat little program to install certificates:

http://blogs.oracle.com/andreas/entry/no_more_unable_to_find

After copying the generated "jssecacerts" file to my [JAVA_HOME]/jre/lib directory and also copying it in the same directed named "cacerts" (there wasn't one), I still get the same error when re-running the wsimport.

So, I copied the "cacerts" file to my [JAX-WS_HOME]\lib as well and still get the same error.

Does anyone know how I can get wsimport to work?

Answer 1

The issue was that I needed to copy the file to [JAVA_HOME]/jre/lib/security (versus [JAVA_HOME]/jre/lib).

[sigh....]