This abstract class defines the service provider interface, or SPI, for the CertificateFactory class. A security provider must implement this class for each type of certificate it wishes to support. Applications never need to use or subclass this class.

public abstract class CertificateFactorySpi {
// Public Constructors
     public CertificateFactorySpi( );  
// Public Instance Methods
     public abstract java.security.cert.Certificate engineGenerateCertificate
        (java.io.InputStream inStream) 
        throws CertificateException;  
     public abstract java.util.Collection<? extends java.security.cert.Certificate> 
        engineGenerateCertificates(java.io.InputStream inStream) 
        throws CertificateException;  
1.4  public CertPath engineGenerateCertPath(java.util.List<? 
        extends java.security.cert.Certificate> certificates) 
        throws CertificateException;  
1.4  public CertPath engineGenerateCertPath(java.io.InputStream inStream) 
        throws CertificateException;  
1.4  public CertPath engineGenerateCertPath(java.io.InputStream inStream, 
        String encoding) throws CertificateException;  
     public abstract CRL engineGenerateCRL(java.io.InputStream inStream) 
        throws CRLException;  
     public abstract java.util.Collection<? extends CRL> engineGenerateCRLs
        (java.io.InputStream inStream) 
        throws CRLException;  
1.4  public java.util.Iterator<String> engineGetCertPathEncodings( );  
}

Passed To

CertificateFactory.CertificateFactory( )