Sometimes Java applications do not find the internal Key- and Truststore (where all well known SSL roots are listed). Last one was Minecraft on OS X 10.9 with installed JRE6, JDK7 and JDK8. Even a pre-defined $JAVA_HOME did not help.
javax.net.ssl.SSLException: java.lang.RuntimeException: Unexpected error: java.security.InvalidAlgorithmParameterException: the trustAnchors parameter must be non-empty
Hopefully, this fix should help you.
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| # Sometimes some Java applications will not work because the internal references to the trusted libs are broken. | |
| # Unless '/System/Library/Java/Support/CoreDeploy.bundle/Contents/Home/lib/security' does not exist, this should help | |
| $ sudo mkdir -p /System/Library/Java/Support/CoreDeploy.bundle/Contents/Home/lib/security | |
| $ cd /System/Library/Java/Support/CoreDeploy.bundle/Contents/Home/lib/security | |
| $ sudo ln -s /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_45.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/security/cacerts | |
| $ sudo ln -s /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_45.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/security/blacklist | |
| $ sudo ln -s /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_45.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/security/trusted.libraries |