Applies to Starting with the January 20, 2015 Critical Patch Update releases (JDK 8u31, JDK 7u75, JDK 6u91, Oracle JRockit 28.3.5, Oracle JRockit R27.8.5, and above) the Java Runtime Environment has SSLv3 disabled by default. Oracle JRockit 28.3.5 and R27.8.5 users - please follow the instructions for Java 6 users. To re-enable SSLv3.0 please visit the appropriate release notes: Java 8 update 31 (