JavaTM 2 Platform
Standard Ed. 5.0

Package javax.security.cert

Provides classes for public key certificates.

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Class Summary
Certificate Abstract class for managing a variety of identity certificates.
X509Certificate Abstract class for X.509 v1 certificates.
 

Exception Summary
CertificateEncodingException Certificate Encoding Exception.
CertificateException This exception indicates one of a variety of certificate problems.
CertificateExpiredException Certificate Expired Exception.
CertificateNotYetValidException Certificate is not yet valid exception.
CertificateParsingException Certificate Parsing Exception.
 

Package javax.security.cert Description

Provides classes for public key certificates.

These classes include a simplified version of the java.security.cert package. These classes were developed as part of the Java Secure Socket Extension (JSSE). When JSSE was added to the Java 2 SDK, this package was added for backward-compatibility reasons only.

New applications should not use this package, but rather java.security.cert.

Since:
1.4

JavaTM 2 Platform
Standard Ed. 5.0

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