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What kind of error java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/bouncycastle/asn1/ASN1OctetString is this?

I got some error from Struts based project in my Eclipse

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/bouncycastle/asn1/ASN1OctetString

What kind of error is this can any one explain it?

Solution

  • The file are you looking is from The Legion of the Bouncy Castle

    Legion of the Bouncy Castle Java Cryptography APIs Description:

    The Bouncy Castle Crypto package is a Java implementation of cryptographic algorithms. The package is organised so that it contains a light-weight API suitable for use in any environment (including the newly released J2ME) with the additional infrastructure to conform the algorithms to the JCE framework.

    The file is also downloadable from maven repository here.

    You have error because this file is not available in the Java classpath. Download the file and put it into WEB-INF/lib.