JSSE Standard API

The JSSE standard API, available in the javax.net, javax.net.ssl and javax.security.cert packages, covers:

• Secure (SSL) sockets and server sockets.
• A non-blocking engine for producing and consuming streams of SSL/TLS data (SSLEngine).
• Factories for creating sockets, server sockets, SSL sockets, and SSL server sockets. Using socket factories you can encapsulate socket creation and configuration behavior.
• A class representing a secure socket context that acts as a factory for secure socket factories and engines.
• Key and trust manager interfaces (including X.509-specific key and trust managers), and factories that can be used for creating them.
• A class for secure HTTP URL connections (HTTPS).