This protected inner class provides an alternate representation of a certificate that can be used for serialization purposes by the writeReplace( ) method of some Certificate implementations. Applications do not typically need this class.

protected static class Certificate.CertificateRep implements Serializable {
// Protected Constructors
     protected CertificateRep(String type, byte[ ] data);  
// Protected Instance Methods
     protected Object readResolve( ) throws java.io.ObjectStreamException;  
}