Weblogic Deployment Exception : PaddingException: Could not perform unpadding: invalid pad byte

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I have recently came up with a deployment Exception of my web application (afte

Answer 1

I clicked MaVRoSCy own response as usefull, because it works. But the downside it's that your password became visible (might not be a problem at development env).

This problem with password encryption can be overcome by reencrypting your password at your weblogic instance.

To do so, go to your weblogic domain, ex: ORACLE_HOME\user_projects\domains\YOUR_DOMAIN

And execute this command: java weblogic.security.Encrypt YOUR_PASSWORD

This will output something like: {AES}0gcupcB95gtlr6VYnT3TZK5PxiATDuIUe3kRKd3b/Ag=

This is your encrypted password for your weblogic instance.

Then just replace it at your password-encrypted property inside datasource xml configuration.

{AES}0gcupcB95gtlr6VYnT3TZK5PxiATDuIUe3kRKd3b/Ag=