This marker interface defines the type of the object returned by the validate( ) method of a CertPathValidator, but does not define any of the contents of that object, other to specify that it must be Cloneable. If you want any details about the results of validating a CertPath, you must cast the return value of validate( ) to an algorithm-specific types implementation of this interface, such as PKIXCertPathValidatorResult.

Figure 14-58. java.security.cert.CertPathValidatorResult

public interface CertPathValidatorResult extends Cloneable {
// Public Instance Methods
     Object clone( );  
}

Implementations

PKIXCertPathValidatorResult

Returned By

CertPathValidator.validate( ), CertPathValidatorSpi.engineValidate( )