Symptom
[Cryptography]
1. [ ERROR ] java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
javax/net/ServerSocketFactory:
Problem
You received the following error when you tried to start the IBM Cognos 8 service after installing server or client components:
Cause
Your Java Runtime Environment (JRE) is missing the encryption and decryption routines that are required by IBM Cognos 8. You must copy the Java Archive (.jar) file that IBM Cognos provides to your JRE directory.
Solution
Copy the bcprov-jdknn-nnn.jar file from the c8_location/bin/jre/version/lib/ext directory to the Java_location/jre/lib/ext directory.