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package org.cesecore.certificates.certificate;

import java.io.Serializable;
import java.security.cert.Certificate;

/**
 * General interface for any object that wraps a certificate, such as
 * {@link CertificateDataWrapper} and {@link CertificateSerializableWrapper}.
 * 
 * Implementations of this interface are expected to handle (de-)serialization of certificates
 * from the BouncyCastle provider. E.g. having a transient Certificate object and
 * having an encoded certificate that is actually serialized.
 *
 * @see org.cesecore.util.EJBTools
 * 
 * @version $Id: CertificateWrapper.java 21875 2015-09-16 19:57:31Z samuellb $
 */
public interface CertificateWrapper extends Serializable {

    Certificate getCertificate();
    
}