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Why I am getting the below Error while trying to run .jar file of SPLUNK JAVA SDK?

payal4296
Explorer

C:\WINDOWS\system32>cd C:\Users\payal.s\Downloads\splunk-sdk-java-1.6.4\dist\examples

C:\Users\payal.s\Downloads\splunk-sdk-java-1.6.4\dist\examples>java -jar explorer.jar
Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.RuntimeException: Received fatal alert: handshake_failure
        at com.splunk.HttpService.send(HttpService.java:451)
        at com.splunk.Service.send(Service.java:1295)
        at com.splunk.HttpService.post(HttpService.java:348)
        at com.splunk.Service.login(Service.java:1124)
        at com.splunk.Service.login(Service.java:1103)
        at com.splunk.Service.connect(Service.java:189)
        at com.splunk.examples.explorer.Program$1.run(Unknown Source)
        at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(Unknown Source)
        at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
        at java.awt.EventQueue.access$300(Unknown Source)
        at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(Unknown Source)
        at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(Unknown Source)
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at java.security.ProtectionDomain$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(Unknown Source)
        at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(Unknown Source)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(Unknown Source)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(Unknown Source)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(Unknown Source)
Caused by: javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: Received fatal alert: handshake_failure
        at sun.security.ssl.Alerts.getSSLException(Unknown Source)
        at sun.security.ssl.Alerts.getSSLException(Unknown Source)
        at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.recvAlert(Unknown Source)
        at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.readRecord(Unknown Source)
        at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.performInitialHandshake(Unknown Source)
        at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.startHandshake(Unknown Source)
        at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.startHandshake(Unknown Source)
        at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsClient.afterConnect(Unknown Source)
        at sun.net.www.protocol.https.AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.connect(Unknown Source)
        at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getOutputStream(Unknown Source)
        at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsURLConnectionImpl.getOutputStream(Unknown Source)
        at com.splunk.HttpService.send(HttpService.java:445)
        ... 20 more
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