How to Obtain arcot-webfort-issuance-bcw.jar for Backward Compatibility in Strong Authentication

Products

• CA Strong Authentication

Issue/Introduction

Starting from CA Strong Authentication 8.1.3, the following user-related Java SDK operations were officially deprecated:

• UserIssuance.createUser()
• UserIssuance.fetchUser()

The standard SDK JAR (arcot-webfort-issuance.jar) no longer supports these operations.
As a workaround for customers who still require legacy support for these APIs, CA Engineering provided a backward-compatible version of the SDK JAR — arcot-webfort-issuance-bcw.jar.

Environment

CA Strong Authentication 8.1.3 and above

Cause

The arcot-webfort-issuance-bcw.jar allows customers to continue using:

• Legacy UserIssuance class and associated user operation methods
• Java-based user creation and retrieval operations that were removed from the primary SDK

Note: This JAR file is not officially bundled in the product distribution but is available within the REST API WAR file shipped with the product.

Resolution

You can download the backward compatibility arcot-webfort-issuance-bcw.jar from this KB in attachment.

Important Usage Instructions

Use only one of the following JARs in your application classpath:

• arcot-webfort-issuance.jar (standard, no legacy support)
• arcot-webfort-issuance-bcw.jar (backward-compatible)

Do NOT include both JARs together to avoid classpath conflicts or runtime issues.