The Novell® Certificate Server™ Classes for Java* API (JPKI) enables you to access the Certificate Server APIs directly from their Java programs. This API provides a JNI interface to the native Certificate Server API. The native API is supported on all eDirectory™ platforms. JPKI will help you use this functionality to further enhance or customize your security solutions without re-writing your own technology.
For more detailed information about the Novell implementation of Certificate Server, see Novell Certificate Server API Libraries—Overview.
This release contains the libraries that are updated for the Certificate Server 3.2.0 code, which includes all bug fixes for future releases.
To see what was changed in the software, sample code, and documentation for previous releases, see the What’s New Archive .
To see the specific documentation changes that were made, see the Revision History.
For an on-line introduction to this API, see Novell Certificate Server Classes for Java.
Access the on-line Javadoc at Novell Certificate Server Classes for Java.
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For detailed on-line Certificate Server product documentation, see:
Novell Certificate Server Classes for Java requires the following components:
C API native code (specifically NPKIAPI and NPKIT). For further dependencies, see Novell Certificate Server Libraries for C.
NOTE:The version of NPKIAPI and NPKIT must be the same as the version on JPKI (npki.jar).
The JNI interface for both PKIAPI and NPKIT, which is contained in npki.jar.
The latest JVM available from Sun Microsystems, Inc.
The same dependencies as Novell eDirectory.
PKI code (3.3 x) will run on eDirectory, but the following new features are supported only in eDirectory 8.8. x and above:
Certificate Server creation of CRL distribution points.
Functionality that creates and uses PKI Container object(s).
Functionality that creates and uses CRL Configuration object(s).
Functionality that creates and uses CRL Distribution Point object(s).
Issuing CRLs.
Revocation of certificates.
Support for Subordinate CAs; that is, having the Organizational CA be subordinate to either a third-party CA or another eDirectory tree.
Support for 4096 bit key size; that is, support for key-sizes greater than 2048 bits.
NOTE:Although the new features listed above may work on eDirectory 8.7 x, they have only been tested and are officially supported only on eDirectory 8.8 x and above.
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