With TIBCO Rendezvous ® (RV) 8.5.0 installed, SSL-enabled activities in TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks™ applications fail to initialize with the following exception -

2020 Aug 28 13:41:11:473 EDT com.tibco.security.AXSecurityException: Cannot initialize BouncyCastle provider in classpath
java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
...
Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.bouncycastle.crypto.CryptoServicesRegistrar.isInApprovedOnlyMode()Z
at org.bouncycastle.jcajce.provider.ProvSecureHash$MD5.configure(Unknown Source)
at org.bouncycastle.jcajce.provider.BouncyCastleFipsProvider.<init>(Unknown Source)
at org.bouncycastle.jcajce.provider.BouncyCastleFipsProvider.<init>(Unknown Source)
... 33 more
2020 Aug 28 13:41:11:481 EDT Cannot initialize security vendor
com.tibco.security.AXSecurityException: Cannot initialize BouncyCastle provider in classpath
at com.tibco.security.impl.OoOO.C.o00000(SecurityVendor.java:314)
at com.tibco.security.impl.OoOO.C.init(SecurityVendor.java:143)
at com.tibco.security.impl.OoOO.C.init(SecurityVendor.java:88)
...
Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:423)
at com.tibco.security.impl.OoOO.C.o00000(SecurityVendor.java:297)
... 28 more
Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.bouncycastle.crypto.CryptoServicesRegistrar.isInApprovedOnlyMode()Z
at org.bouncycastle.jcajce.provider.ProvSecureHash$MD5.configure(Unknown Source)
at org.bouncycastle.jcajce.provider.BouncyCastleFipsProvider.<init>(Unknown Source)
at org.bouncycastle.jcajce.provider.BouncyCastleFipsProvider.<init>(Unknown Source)
... 33 more
2020 Aug 28 13:41:11:487 EDT While initializing security vendor
com.tibco.security.AXSecurityException: Cannot initialize security vendor 'j2se', got: com.tibco.security.AXSecurityException: Cannot initialize BouncyCastle provider in classpath (TIBCrypt 2.19.0.023)
at com.tibco.security.impl.OoOO.C.init(SecurityVendor.java:160)
at com.tibco.security.impl.OoOO.C.init(SecurityVendor.java:88)
at com.tibco.security.impl.OoOO.void.init(CryptoVendor.java:47)
...

The issue is caused by conflict with the BouncyCastle JAR file from RV 8.5 installation - RV_HOME/lib/bcprov-jdk15on-162.jar.

How to resolve com.tibco.security.AXSecurityException: Cannot initialize BouncyCastle provider in classpath

TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks™ 5.14.0 TIBCO Rendezvous ® 8.5.0 TIBCO Runtime Agent™ 5.11.1

To resolve the issue, add %TPCL_HOME%/lib/bc-fips-1.0.2.jar as the first entry to tibco.env.CUSTOM_EXT_PREPEND_CP in bwengine.tra file. Then redeploy the application.

Before -
tibco.env.CUSTOM_EXT_PREPEND_CP=e:/tibco/bw/5.14/hotfix/lib;%TRA_HOME%/hotfix/lib;%RV_HOME%/lib/tibrvj.jar;%RV_HOME%/lib;%RV_HOME%/lib/64;%TPCL_HOME%/lib/mail.jar;%TRA_HOME%/lib/TIBCrypt.jar

After -
tibco.env.CUSTOM_EXT_PREPEND_CP=%TPCL_HOME%/lib/bc-fips-1.0.2.jar;e:/tibco/bw/5.14/hotfix/lib;%TRA_HOME%/hotfix/lib;%RV_HOME%/lib/tibrvj.jar;%RV_HOME%/lib;%RV_HOME%/lib/64;%TPCL_HOME%/lib/mail.jar;%TRA_HOME%/lib/TIBCrypt.jar