Sorry about spamming the board with questions! But here another question about PBE encryption

[Rob Lee]

Hello all,

public class passphrase {
    
    static String algorithm = "AES";
    public static String ss = "the queen diamond jubilee";
    static char[] S=ss.toCharArray();
    
    static String secretData = "Very Secret Data!!";
    private static SealedObject myEncryptedMessage;
      static byte[] salt = "a9v5n38s".getBytes();
    
    public passphrase() throws NoSuchAlgorithmException, InvalidKeySpecException, NoSuchPaddingException, InvalidKeyException, InvalidAlgorithmParameterException, UnsupportedEncodingException, IllegalBlockSizeException, BadPaddingException, IOException, ClassNotFoundException, DecoderException{
        encrypt(secretData);
        decrypt(encrypt(secretData));
        
    }
    public static byte[] gensalt() throws DecoderException{
       byte[] x=Hex.decodeHex("ab987e8999ee".toCharArray());
       
       return x;
    }
    
     public static byte[] convert(String h) {
 char[] buffer = ss.toCharArray();
 byte[] b = new byte[buffer.length];
 for (int i = 0; i < b.length; i++) {
  b[i] = (byte) buffer[i];
 }
 return b;
}
          
        
    
    
    public static String encrypt (String lp) throws NoSuchAlgorithmException, InvalidKeySpecException, NoSuchPaddingException, InvalidKeyException, InvalidAlgorithmParameterException, UnsupportedEncodingException, IllegalBlockSizeException, BadPaddingException, IOException, DecoderException{

   
    
    

    PBEParameterSpec pbeParamSpec = new PBEParameterSpec(salt, 10);
    PBEKeySpec pbeKeySpec = new PBEKeySpec(S);  
    SecretKeyFactory factory = SecretKeyFactory.getInstance("PBKDF2WithHmacSHA1");  
    
    
    
   
    SecretKey key = factory.generateSecret(pbeKeySpec);
    Cipher c = Cipher.getInstance("PBEWithMD5AndDES");
    c.init(Cipher.ENCRYPT_MODE,key,pbeParamSpec);    
     byte[] input = secretData.getBytes("UTF-8");

     byte[] encrypted = c.doFinal(input);
     String encryptedString = new String(Base64.encodeBase64(encrypted));
     return encryptedString;
    }
    public static String decrypt (String encryptedString) throws NoSuchAlgorithmException, InvalidKeySpecException, NoSuchPaddingException, InvalidKeyException, InvalidAlgorithmParameterException, IllegalBlockSizeException, BadPaddingException, IOException, ClassNotFoundException, UnsupportedEncodingException, DecoderException{
    
    
    PBEParameterSpec pbeParamSpec = new PBEParameterSpec(salt, 10);
    PBEKeySpec pbeKeySpec = new PBEKeySpec(S); 
    SecretKeyFactory factory = SecretKeyFactory.getInstance("PBKDF2WithHmacSHA1");
    SecretKey key = factory.generateSecret(pbeKeySpec);
   
  
    Cipher c = Cipher.getInstance("PBEWithMD5AndDES");

    c.init(Cipher.ENCRYPT_MODE,key,pbeParamSpec);
    byte[] encryptedText = Base64.decodeBase64(encrypt(secretData));
    byte[] plainText = c.doFinal(encryptedText);
    String decryptedText= new String(plainText);
    
   
    System.out.println(decryptedText);
    return  decryptedText;
    
    }
    public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception {
        
        passphrase p= new passphrase();
    }

    
}

I get this frustrating output(Exception in thread "main" java.security.spec.InvalidKeySpecException: Salt not found)

Why is That?

Thank you all