BouncyCastle function (JcaPEMKeyConverter) hanging somewhere

Question

So I have the code below and when debugging in IntelliJ, it seems to hang after executing this line

JcaPEMKeyConverter converter = new JcaPEMKeyConverter()

Any ideas what could be wrong?

    try {
        //I have a breakpoint on the line below (Object object...)
        Object object = (Object) ContentUtils.readFileReturnAsInputStream(request, publicKeyPath);
        JcaPEMKeyConverter converter = new JcaPEMKeyConverter();

        //never goes to the line below
        converter = converter.setProvider("BC"); //never gets to this p
        PublicKey key2 = converter.getPublicKey((SubjectPublicKeyInfo) object);

        return key1;
    } catch (Exception e) {
        throw new IOException();
    }

I loaded the libraries by adding these into my pom file

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.bouncycastle</groupId>
    <artifactId>bcpkix-jdk15on</artifactId>
    <version>1.51</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.bouncycastle</groupId>
    <artifactId>bcprov-jdk15on</artifactId>
    <version>1.51</version>
</dependency>

and then I can see the following libraries were downloaded locally.

➜  ls -al ~/.m2/repository/org/bouncycastle/                   
0755 - myuser 11 Apr 11:37 bcpkix-jdk15on
0755 - myuser 11 Apr 11:37 bcprov-jdk15on
0755 - myuser 11 Apr 11:20 bcutil-jdk15on

➜  ls -al ~/.m2/repository/org/bouncycastle/bcpkix-jdk15on/1.51
0644  207 myuser 11 Apr 11:37 _remote.repositories
0644 606k myuser 11 Apr 11:37 bcpkix-jdk15on-1.51.jar
0644  345 myuser 11 Apr 11:37 bcpkix-jdk15on-1.51.jar.lastUpdated
0644   40 myuser 11 Apr 11:37 bcpkix-jdk15on-1.51.jar.sha1
0644 1.5k myuser 11 Apr 11:37 bcpkix-jdk15on-1.51.pom
0644  345 myuser 11 Apr 11:37 bcpkix-jdk15on-1.51.pom.lastUpdated
0644   40 myuser 11 Apr 11:37 bcpkix-jdk15on-1.51.pom.sha1