Write x509 certificate into PEM formatted string in java?

Question

Is there some high level way to write an X509Certificate into a PEM formatted string? Currently I\'m doing x509cert.encode() to write it into a DER formatted string, then ba

Answer 1

To build on ZZ Coder's idea, but without using the sun.misc classes that aren't guaranteed to be consistent between JRE versions, consider this

Use Class:

import javax.xml.bind.DatatypeConverter;

Code:

try {
    System.out.println("-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----");
    System.out.println(DatatypeConverter.printBase64Binary(x509cert.getEncoded()));
    System.out.println("-----END CERTIFICATE-----");
} catch (CertificateEncodingException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
}