Java tutorial
package org.bouncycastle.cert.jcajce; import java.io.IOException; import java.security.cert.CertificateEncodingException; import java.security.cert.X509Certificate; import java.util.ArrayList; import java.util.Collection; import java.util.Iterator; import java.util.List; import org.bouncycastle.cert.X509CertificateHolder; import org.bouncycastle.util.CollectionStore; /** * Class for storing Certificates for later lookup. * <p> * The class will convert X509Certificate objects into X509CertificateHolder objects. * </p> */ public class JcaCertStore extends CollectionStore { /** * Basic constructor. * * @param collection - initial contents for the store, this is copied. */ public JcaCertStore(Collection collection) throws CertificateEncodingException { super(convertCerts(collection)); } private static Collection convertCerts(Collection collection) throws CertificateEncodingException { List list = new ArrayList(collection.size()); for (Iterator it = collection.iterator(); it.hasNext();) { Object o = it.next(); if (o instanceof X509Certificate) { X509Certificate cert = (X509Certificate) o; try { list.add(new X509CertificateHolder(cert.getEncoded())); } catch (IOException e) { throw new CertificateEncodingException("unable to read encoding: " + e.getMessage()); } } else { list.add((X509CertificateHolder) o); } } return list; } }