Greetings Team,

                        We are migrating our application from Java11 to Java17 and for virtualization I am using vim25.jar which is internally using axis-1.4.1 jar and is throwing below exception:

Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/sun/net/ssl/internal/ssl/Provider java.base/java.lang.Class.getDeclaredConstructors0(Native Method) java.base/java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredConstructors(Unknown Source) java.base/java.lang.Class.getConstructor0(Unknown Source) java.base/java.lang.Class.getConstructor(Unknown Source) org.apache.commons.discovery.tools.ClassUtils.newInstance(ClassUtils.java:159) org.apache.axis.AxisProperties$1.run(AxisProperties.java:181) java.base/java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Unknown Source) org.apache.axis.AxisProperties.newInstance(AxisProperties.java:164) org.apache.axis.components.net.SocketFactoryFactory.getFactory(SocketFactoryFactory.java:76) org.apache.axis.transport.http.HTTPSender.getSocket(HTTPSender.java:186) org.apache.axis.transport.http.HTTPSender.writeToSocket(HTTPSender.java:403) org.apache.axis.transport.http.HTTPSender.invoke(HTTPSender.java:137) org.apache.axis.strategies.InvocationStrategy.visit(InvocationStrategy.java:32) org.apache.axis.SimpleChain.doVisiting(SimpleChain.java:118) org.apache.axis.SimpleChain.invoke(SimpleChain.java:83) org.apache.axis.client.AxisClient.invoke(AxisClient.java:165) org.apache.axis.client.Call.invokeEngine(Call.java:2782) org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2765) org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2443) org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2366) org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:1812) com.vmware.vim25.VimBindingStub.retrieveServiceContent(VimBindingStub.java:55605)  

Root cause: com/sun/net/ssl/internal/ssl/Provider support is removed in Java17 and I need alternative for this provider specifically for Java17.

Is there any latest vim or any other vmware api jar available which is compatible with Java17?

I would appreciate your quick response!

Thank You.

Vinoth