Java - can't find security class - addProvider()

[dajo]

I'm a vb.net programmer who needs to get this java programming working. It runs fine in visual studio except for malformed url on an https request. Google'ing shows that this has to do with the security provider setting but no matter what I do I keep getting:

Cannot find class 'com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.Provider'

Here is the line of code where the error occurs:

Security.addProvider( new com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.Provider());

I've installed jsse and jdk 5.0. I've looked in the java.security file and see that the providers are listed.

I don't know anything about java. It seems as though these classes are not registered but I can't find how to do this.

Help would be great!

 

[kamper]

You're sure you're running the app on sun's jdk? I didn't know visual studio could do that.

Anyways, that's a dodgy area. It's a well known rule that you're not allowed to call com.sun.* or sun.* classes as they are not part of the java spec but some tools (and I mean, the programmers) still do. However, there are spots where it's easy to do by accident, like using https, as I don't believe support for the protocol is necessarily a requirement for a jdk, even though sun's jdk does provide it. Is it acceptable to use plain http for the request? If not, can you set up an ssh tunnel externally to use?

 

[MrChad]

Is the sunjce_provider.jar file in your classpath? Also, why are you developing a Java app in MS Visual Studio?