error connecting to external https webservice

Question

I am trying to invoke an outbound external webservice which is https. Its working fine in my local MuleStudion env. But when I deploy to test. I am getting an exception

Message               : Failed to route event via endpoint: DefaultOutboundEndpoint{endpointUri=https://xxx.com/yyy, connector=HttpsConnector
{
  name=connector.https.mule.default
  lifecycle=start
  this=4670c992
  numberOfConcurrentTransactedReceivers=4
  createMultipleTransactedReceivers=true
  connected=true
  supportedProtocols=[https]
  serviceOverrides=<none>
}
,  name='endpoint.https.xxx.comy.yyy', mep=REQUEST_RESPONSE, properties={http.method=POST, Content-Type=text/xml}, transactionConfig=Transaction{factory=null, action=INDIFFERENT, timeout=0}, deleteUnacceptedMessages=false, initialState=started, responseTimeout=10000, endpointEncoding=UTF-8, disableTransportTransformer=false}. Message payload is of type: PostMethod
Code                  : MULE_ERROR-42999
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Exception stack is:

1. the trustAnchors parameter must be non-empty (java.security.InvalidAlgorithmParameterException) java.security.cert.PKIXParameters:200 (null)
2. Unexpected error: java.security.InvalidAlgorithmParameterException: the trustAnchors parameter must be non-empty (java.lang.RuntimeException) sun.security.validator.PKIXValidator:90 (null)
3. java.lang.RuntimeException: Unexpected error: java.security.InvalidAlgorithmParameterException: the trustAnchors parameter must be non-empty (javax.net.ssl.SSLException) sun.security.ssl.Alerts:208 (http://java.sun.com/j2ee/sdk_1.3/techdocs/api/javax/net/ssl/SSLException.html)
4. Failed to route event via endpoint: DefaultOutboundEndpoint{endpointUri=https://xxx.com/yyy, connector=HttpsConnector

The snippet calling is

    <set-payload value="&lt;?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot; encoding=&quot;UTF-8&quot;?&gt;&lt;soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv=&quot;http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/&quot; xmlns:mcs=&quot;http://www.cybershift.com/wfm3/mcs10/&quot; xmlns:ns=&quot;http://www.cybershift.com/wfm3/5/3/&quot;&gt;&lt;soapenv:Header&gt;&lt;mcs:UsernameToken&gt;&lt;mcs:clientName&gt;HHMI&lt;/mcs:clientName&gt;&lt;mcs:user&gt;xxx&lt;/mcs:user&gt;&lt;mcs:password&gt;yyy5&lt;/mcs:password&gt;&lt;/mcs:UsernameToken&gt;&lt;/soapenv:Header&gt;&lt;soapenv:Body&gt;&lt;mcs:RetrieveData&gt;&lt;mcs:businessObjectName&gt;SCHEDULE&lt;/mcs:businessObjectName&gt;&lt;mcs:queryValueObject action=&quot;ADD&quot; startDate=&quot;#[flowVars['payStartDate']]&quot; endDate=&quot;#[flowVars['payEndDate']]&quot;&gt;&lt;ns:StringAttribute name=&quot;pqr&quot;&gt;&lt;ns:string&gt;#[empIDS.get(flowVars['eid']-1).text]&lt;/ns:string&gt;&lt;/ns:StringAttribute&gt;&lt;/mcs:queryValueObject&gt;&lt;/mcs:RetrieveData&gt;&lt;/soapenv:Body&gt;&lt;/soapenv:Envelope&gt;" doc:name="Set Payload"/>
    <logger message="SOAP Request to ST #[message.payload]" level="INFO" doc:name="Logger"/>

    <https:outbound-endpoint exchange-pattern="request-response"    method="POST" doc:name="ST" contentType="text/xml" address="https://xxx.com/yyy"/>

Do I need to set up an https connector. If so what do I need to have. Many Thanks.

Answer 1

Generally this means that the truststore you specified was not found, or could not be opened due to access permissions in os.Check that the service can access the keystore.