解决方案：PKIX path building failed:unable to find valid certification path to requested target

一、问题描述

在使用twitter4j实例化Twitter对象后

    ConfigurationBuilder cb = new ConfigurationBuilder();
    cb.setDebugEnabled(true)
        .setOAuthConsumerKey("myConsumerKey")
        .setOAuthConsumerSecret("myConsumerSecret")
        .setOAuthAccessToken("myAccessToken")
        .setOAuthAccessTokenSecret("myAccessTokenSecret");

    TwitterFactory tf = new TwitterFactory(cb.build());
    Twitter twitter = tf.getInstance();

调用twitter对象进行搜索操作twitter.search()遇到错误PKIX path building failed:unable to find valid certification path to requested target。

二、解决方案

将JRE由1.6改为1.7以上版本即可。原因是1.6版本的jdk缺少证书，参考http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21076179/pkix-path-building-failed-and-unable-to-find-valid-certification-path-to-requ

After many hours trying to build cert files to get my Java 6 installation working with the new twitter cert's, I finally stumbled onto an incredibly simple solution buried in a comment in one of the message boards. Just copy the cacerts file from a Java 7 installation and overwrite the one in your Java 6 installation. Probably best to make a backup of the cacerts file first, but then you just copy the new one in and BOOM! it just works.

Note that I actually copied a Windows cacerts file onto a Linux installation and it worked just fine.

The file is located in jre/lib/security/cacerts in both the old and new Java jdk installations.

Hope this saves someone else hours of aggravation.