JDK-6567947 : java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError while loading http://bugster.sfbay.sun.com using Kernel JRE
  • Type: Bug
  • Component: deploy
  • Sub-Component: deployment_toolkit
  • Affected Version: 6u4
  • Priority: P2
  • Status: Closed
  • Resolution: Fixed
  • OS: windows
  • CPU: x86
  • Submitted: 2007-06-09
  • Updated: 2010-09-08
  • Resolved: 2007-08-03
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JDK 6
6u4 b01Fixed
Description
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError while loading http://bugster.sfbay.sun.com with Kernel JRE .

Error: 
 java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class javax.crypto.SunJCE_b
Comments
EVALUATION There were two issues at work here: 1) The JCP provider JARs are signed, and the signature wasn't surviving the pack200 / unpack200 cycle. 2) The JCP provider JAR was inadvertently being loaded by the boot class loader, despite living in the lib/ext subdirectory. This was preventing the signature from being verified even when it was correct. For the time being, packing has simply been disabled on signed JRE jars. A better fix would be to alter the build process to generate JARs that could survive pack / unpack with intact signatures, but that is a bigger change than we have time for at the moment. The extension class loader was also modified to check for a download before trying to load a given class; this means that the search never bubbles up to the boot class loader and so the JAR never ends up on the boot class path.
14-06-2007