Monday, June 04, 2012

Cannot get security object from WCCM. Exception

This exception occured while Starting the Websphere Commerce Server.

An error occurred initializing, server1 [class com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.ServerImpl]
com.ibm.ws.exception.ConfigurationError: com.ibm.websphere.ssl.SSLException: Cannot get security object from WCCM.
 at com.ibm.ws.ssl.core.SSLComponentImpl.initialize(SSLComponentImpl.java:208)
 at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.ContainerHelper.initWsComponent(ContainerHelper.java:1191)
 at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.ContainerHelper.initializeComponent(ContainerHelper.java:1098)
 at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.ContainerHelper.initializeComponents(ContainerHelper.java:900)
 at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.ContainerImpl.initializeComponents(ContainerImpl.java:776)
 at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.ContainerImpl.initializeComponents(ContainerImpl.java:750)

Solution: WC Dir/wasprofile\config\cells\localhost\security.xml may be corrupted

Restore this from back up.

Note: It is a good practise to backup the WC Install directory and RAD directory as every once in a while WCS Installation tends to get corrupted.