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

Googling to find an answer was not very helpful. After examining the files received from my SVN repository, i noticed that a jdbc application resource was changed.

Examining the jdbc resource more closely i found that it was using the password-encrypted property which is used only for production environments

{AES}some+very+long+encrypted+string

So I commented out this property and used the property used for the development environment:

 
     
        user
        MY_USER
     
     
        password
        MY_PASS_IN_PLAIN_TEXT
     
  

And that worked just fine.