HttpClientBuilder issue : Could not initialize class sun.security.ssl.SSLContextImpl$CustomizedTLSContext

In my java code below, I randomly receive the following error.

 final HttpClient client = HttpClientBuilder.create().build();
         final HttpGet request = new HttpGet(requestParameters);
         final HttpResponse response = client.execute(request);

Error:

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class sun.security.ssl.SSLContextImpl$CustomizedTLSContext
    at java.base/java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
    at java.base/java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:291)
    at java.base/java.security.Provider$Service.getImplClass(Provider.java:1848)
    at java.base/java.security.Provider$Service.newInstance(Provider.java:1824)
    at java.base/sun.security.jca.GetInstance.getInstance(GetInstance.java:236)
    at java.base/sun.security.jca.GetInstance.getInstance(GetInstance.java:164)
    at java.base/javax.net.ssl.SSLContext.getInstance(SSLContext.java:168)
    at org.apache.http.ssl.SSLContexts.createDefault(SSLContexts.java:51)
    at org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClientBuilder.build(HttpClientBuilder.java:977)

I can't reproduce the issue as it is random. Does that mean that the ssl/tls handshake has failed?

would Implementing a retry policy help remediate this issue ?

  public DefaultHttpRequestRetryHandler() {
        this(3, false);
    }

https://jar-download.com/artifacts/org.apache.httpcomponents/httpclient/4.5.2/source-code/org/apache/http/impl/client/DefaultHttpRequestRetryHandler.java

Below are the java libraries I am using :

UPDATE: While I thought I would get rid of this issue by moving from the HttpClientBuilder to the java.net.HttpUrlConnection, unfortunately, I am getting the same error :

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class sun.security.ssl.SSLContextImpl$DefaultSSLContext
    at java.base/java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
    at java.base/java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:291)
    at java.base/java.security.Provider$Service.getImplClass(Provider.java:1848)
    at java.base/java.security.Provider$Service.newInstance(Provider.java:1824)
    at java.base/sun.security.jca.GetInstance.getInstance(GetInstance.java:236)
    at java.base/sun.security.jca.GetInstance.getInstance(GetInstance.java:164)
    at java.base/javax.net.ssl.SSLContext.getInstance(SSLContext.java:168)
    at java.base/javax.net.ssl.SSLContext.getDefault(SSLContext.java:99)
    at java.base/javax.net.ssl.SSLSocketFactory.getDefault(SSLSocketFactory.java:123)
    at java.base/javax.net.ssl.HttpsURLConnection.getDefaultSSLSocketFactory(HttpsURLConnection.java:335)
    at java.base/javax.net.ssl.HttpsURLConnection.<init>(HttpsURLConnection.java:292)
    at java.base/sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsURLConnectionImpl.<init>(HttpsURLConnectionImpl.java:95)
    at java.base/sun.net.www.protocol.https.Handler.openConnection(Handler.java:62)
    at java.base/sun.net.www.protocol.https.Handler.openConnection(Handler.java:57)
    at java.base/java.net.URL.openConnection(URL.java:1051)