Error : java.security.InvalidAlgorithmParameterException: the trustAnchors parameter must be non-empty

This is the problem I have faced when running build or test command on any java project. The following is the error I got,

+ make test
./gradlew test
Downloading https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-3.3-all.zip
Exception in thread "main" javax.net.ssl.SSLException: java.lang.RuntimeException: Unexpected error: java.security.InvalidAlgorithmParameterException: the trustAnchors parameter must be non-empty
	at sun.security.ssl.Alerts.getSSLException(Alerts.java:208)
	at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.fatal(SSLSocketImpl.java:1959)
	at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.fatal(SSLSocketImpl.java:1916)
	at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.handleException(SSLSocketImpl.java:1899)
	at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.startHandshake(SSLSocketImpl.java:1420)
	at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.startHandshake(SSLSocketImpl.java:1397)
	at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsClient.afterConnect(HttpsClient.java:559)
	at sun.net.www.protocol.https.AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.connect(AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.java:185)
	at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream0(HttpURLConnection.java:1546)
	at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:1474)
	at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsURLConnectionImpl.getInputStream(HttpsURLConnectionImpl.java:254)
	at org.gradle.wrapper.Download.downloadInternal(Download.java:60)
	at org.gradle.wrapper.Download.download(Download.java:45)
	at org.gradle.wrapper.Install$1.call(Install.java:62)
	at org.gradle.wrapper.Install$1.call(Install.java:48)
	at org.gradle.wrapper.ExclusiveFileAccessManager.access(ExclusiveFileAccessManager.java:69)
	at org.gradle.wrapper.Install.createDist(Install.java:48)
	at org.gradle.wrapper.WrapperExecutor.execute(WrapperExecutor.java:107)
	at org.gradle.wrapper.GradleWrapperMain.main(GradleWrapperMain.java:61)
Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Unexpected error: java.security.InvalidAlgorithmParameterException: the trustAnchors parameter must be non-empty
	at sun.security.validator.PKIXValidator.<init>(PKIXValidator.java:91)
	at sun.security.validator.Validator.getInstance(Validator.java:179)
	at sun.security.ssl.X509TrustManagerImpl.getValidator(X509TrustManagerImpl.java:312)
	at sun.security.ssl.X509TrustManagerImpl.checkTrustedInit(X509TrustManagerImpl.java:171)
	at sun.security.ssl.X509TrustManagerImpl.checkTrusted(X509TrustManagerImpl.java:184)
	at sun.security.ssl.X509TrustManagerImpl.checkServerTrusted(X509TrustManagerImpl.java:124)
	at sun.security.ssl.ClientHandshaker.serverCertificate(ClientHandshaker.java:1496)
	at sun.security.ssl.ClientHandshaker.processMessage(ClientHandshaker.java:216)
	at sun.security.ssl.Handshaker.processLoop(Handshaker.java:1026)
	at sun.security.ssl.Handshaker.process_record(Handshaker.java:961)
	at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.readRecord(SSLSocketImpl.java:1072)
	at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.performInitialHandshake(SSLSocketImpl.java:1385)
	at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.startHandshake(SSLSocketImpl.java:1413)
	... 14 more
Caused by: java.security.InvalidAlgorithmParameterException: the trustAnchors parameter must be non-empty
	at java.security.cert.PKIXParameters.setTrustAnchors(PKIXParameters.java:200)
	at java.security.cert.PKIXParameters.<init>(PKIXParameters.java:120)
	at java.security.cert.PKIXBuilderParameters.<init>(PKIXBuilderParameters.java:104)
	at sun.security.validator.PKIXValidator.<init>(PKIXValidator.java:89)
	... 26 more
make: *** [test] Error 1

Solution :

sudo /var/lib/dpkg/info/ca-certificates-java.postinst configure

The above code solved my problem in Jenkins worker node with is on Ubuntu os.

In general ca-certificates-java is not a dependency in the Oracle JDK/JRE so this must be explicitly installed. Hence the command will automatically create the file when the test will run.

I have also added the actual code snippet from my dev environment. Following is the screenshot,