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This class represents an X.500 Principal. X500Principals are represented by distinguished names such as "CN=Duke OU=JavaSoft O=Sun Microsystems C=US".

This class can be instantiated by using a string representation of the distinguished name or by using the ASN.1 DER encoded byte representation of the distinguished name. The current specification for the string representation of a distinguished name is defined in RFC 2253. This class however accepts string formats from both RFC 2253 and RFC 1779 and also recognizes attribute type keywords whose OIDs (Object Identifiers) are defined in RFC 2459.

The string representation for this X500Principal can be obtained by calling the getName methods.

Note that the getSubjectX500Principal and getIssuerX500Principal methods of X509Certificate return X500Principals representing the issuer and subject fields of the certificate. @version 1.15 1217 04/0305/0102 @see java.security.cert.X509Certificate @since 1.4