Provides abtract interfaces to Sun Microsystems Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) API. The SSL API is a standard extension to release 1.1 of the Java platform.

Package Specification

Except for the methods all other methods are abstract;This means no classes of this package can be directly instantiated.

The intended usage for this package is to provide a well defined interface for the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) API, which could be implemented in different ways.However, the non-abstract static methods mentioned above offer a standard way to get the current implementation of this package.

Every application should use the SSLSocketFactory.setDefault to set the current implementation of this package in its runtime environment setup. Applications using SSL could then obtain the factories for the current implementation by calling SSLSocketFactory.getDefault / SSLServerSocketFactory.getDefault

If you already have a abstract interface matching Sun's specification for the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) API, you may not need this package.

Related Documentation

Note that the package is not documented. For the documentation of the API, see the SSL API reference pages.



Copyright (C) 1999 Andrei Popovici

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