Following the instructions in quickstarts/switchyard/demos/policy-security-wss-signencrypt/Readme.md the test cannot pass. While running the last command that should successfully pass (mvn exec:java -Dexec.args="confidentiality signencrypt" -Djavax.net.ssl.trustStore=connector.jks), it fails and an exception is thrown. Especially "Unable to load class" and "Class cast exception" look suspicious. 17:34:36,755 WARNING [org.apache.cxf.phase.PhaseInterceptorChain] (http-/127.0.0.1:8443-1) Interceptor for {urn:switchyard-quickstart-demo:policy-security-wss-signencrypt:0.1.0}WorkService has thrown exception, unwinding now: org.apache.cxf.binding.soap.SoapFault: General security error (Unable to load class org.apache.ws.security.processor.SignatureProcessor) at org.apache.cxf.ws.security.wss4j.WSS4JInInterceptor.createSoapFault(WSS4JInInterceptor.java:767) [cxf-rt-ws-security-2.6.6-redhat-3.jar:2.6.6-redhat-3] at org.apache.cxf.ws.security.wss4j.WSS4JInInterceptor.handleMessage(WSS4JInInterceptor.java:334) [cxf-rt-ws-security-2.6.6-redhat-3.jar:2.6.6-redhat-3] at org.apache.cxf.ws.security.wss4j.WSS4JInInterceptor.handleMessage(WSS4JInInterceptor.java:96) [cxf-rt-ws-security-2.6.6-redhat-3.jar:2.6.6-redhat-3] at org.apache.cxf.phase.PhaseInterceptorChain.doIntercept(PhaseInterceptorChain.java:262) [cxf-api-2.6.6-redhat-3.jar:2.6.6-redhat-3] at org.apache.cxf.transport.ChainInitiationObserver.onMessage(ChainInitiationObserver.java:121) [cxf-api-2.6.6-redhat-3.jar:2.6.6-redhat-3] at org.apache.cxf.transport.http.AbstractHTTPDestination.invoke(AbstractHTTPDestination.java:237) [cxf-rt-transports-http-2.6.6-redhat-3.jar:2.6.6-redhat-3] at org.jboss.wsf.stack.cxf.RequestHandlerImpl.handleHttpRequest(RequestHandlerImpl.java:95) [jbossws-cxf-server-4.1.3.Final-redhat-3.jar:4.1.3.Final-redhat-3] at org.jboss.wsf.stack.cxf.transport.ServletHelper.callRequestHandler(ServletHelper.java:156) [jbossws-cxf-server-4.1.3.Final-redhat-3.jar:4.1.3.Final-redhat-3] at org.jboss.wsf.stack.cxf.CXFServletExt.invoke(CXFServletExt.java:87) [jbossws-cxf-server-4.1.3.Final-redhat-3.jar:4.1.3.Final-redhat-3] at org.apache.cxf.transport.servlet.AbstractHTTPServlet.handleRequest(AbstractHTTPServlet.java:225) [cxf-rt-transports-http-2.6.6-redhat-3.jar:2.6.6-redhat-3] at org.apache.cxf.transport.servlet.AbstractHTTPServlet.doPost(AbstractHTTPServlet.java:145) [cxf-rt-transports-http-2.6.6-redhat-3.jar:2.6.6-redhat-3] at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:754) [jboss-servlet-api_3.0_spec-1.0.2.Final-redhat-1.jar:1.0.2.Final-redhat-1] at org.jboss.wsf.stack.cxf.CXFServletExt.service(CXFServletExt.java:135) [jbossws-cxf-server-4.1.3.Final-redhat-3.jar:4.1.3.Final-redhat-3] at org.jboss.wsf.spi.deployment.WSFServlet.service(WSFServlet.java:140) [jbossws-spi-2.1.2.Final-redhat-1.jar:2.1.2.Final-redhat-1] at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:847) [jboss-servlet-api_3.0_spec-1.0.2.Final-redhat-1.jar:1.0.2.Final-redhat-1] at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:295) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:214) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:230) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:149) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:145) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:97) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:102) at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:336) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:856) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:653) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:920) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:724) [rt.jar:1.7.0_25] Caused by: org.apache.ws.security.WSSecurityException: General security error (Unable to load class org.apache.ws.security.processor.SignatureProcessor) at org.apache.ws.security.WSSConfig.getProcessor(WSSConfig.java:789) [wss4j-1.6.9-redhat-2.jar:1.6.9-redhat-2] at org.apache.ws.security.WSSecurityEngine.processSecurityHeader(WSSecurityEngine.java:394) [wss4j-1.6.9-redhat-2.jar:1.6.9-redhat-2] at org.apache.cxf.ws.security.wss4j.WSS4JInInterceptor.handleMessage(WSS4JInInterceptor.java:277) [cxf-rt-ws-security-2.6.6-redhat-3.jar:2.6.6-redhat-3] ... 25 more Caused by: java.lang.ClassCastException: org.apache.jcp.xml.dsig.internal.dom.DOMXMLSignatureFactory cannot be cast to javax.xml.crypto.dsig.XMLSignatureFactory at javax.xml.crypto.dsig.XMLSignatureFactory.getInstance(XMLSignatureFactory.java:290) [rt.jar:1.7.0_25] at org.apache.ws.security.processor.SignatureProcessor.<init>(SignatureProcessor.java:98) [wss4j-1.6.9-redhat-2.jar:1.6.9-redhat-2] at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) [rt.jar:1.7.0_25] at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:57) [rt.jar:1.7.0_25] at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45) [rt.jar:1.7.0_25] at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:526) [rt.jar:1.7.0_25] at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:374) [rt.jar:1.7.0_25] at org.apache.ws.security.WSSConfig.getProcessor(WSSConfig.java:784) [wss4j-1.6.9-redhat-2.jar:1.6.9-redhat-2] ... 27 more
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1016484 ***