Troubleshooting
Problem
In IBM Rational Application Developer (RAD) v8.0.x and WebSphere Application Server Developer Toolkit for Eclipse (WDT) v8.0.x, using the Eclipse plugin for Microsoft Visual Studio Team Explorer Everywhere (TEE) 2010 with SP1 (v10.1), you encounter a socket exception when trying to connect to a Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS) server via HTTPS with an error.
Symptom
The full error message is:
java.net.SocketException: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Cannot find the specified class com.ibm.websphere.ssl.protocol.SSLSocketFactory
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Modified date:
16 June 2018
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