JRE certificate store vs OS certificate store

Question

It appears that the certificate store used by the Oracle Java Runtime Environment (JRE) Version 7 Update 45 is independent of the certificates maintained by a Microsoft Windows 7 Enterprise 32-bit operating system. Can anyone confirm that the JRE certificate store is independent of the operating system or browser certificate stores or point me to relevant documentation on this?
I see that certificate can be manually imported into the User-level JRE certificate store using the "Java Control Panel, Security, Manage Certificates..." dialog. Is it possible to script the import of a certificate into the JRE system certificate store?

Answer 1

i want to extract certificate from microsoft
certificate store!!!
wht is the procedure to do that???
currently i m using jdk1.5 and my task is to list all
the certificate from microsoft cert store and print
them in swing's application!!!
i dont know how to do this in 2 days so plz help me
to complete this task!!!
thnx in advance!!!Hi, you can use the Assembla JCE Provider, "https://download.assembla.se/jceprovider/"
I use this metod to recover the windows keystore:
public KeyStore openWinKeyStore() throws NoSuchProviderException,
KeyStoreException, CertificateException, NoSuchAlgorithmException,
IOException,KeySoreSOException {
// check for windos OS
String os = System.getProperty("os.name");
if(os.toLowerCase().indexOf("windows")==-1){
throw new KeySoreSOException("Sistema operativo no soportado " + os);
// load the jce provider
java.security.Security.insertProviderAt(new MSProvider(), 2);
//create the keystore of type msks (microsoft keystore)
KeyStore ks = KeyStore.getInstance("MSKS", "assembla");
// load certificates ( byte[]null, password null)
ks.load(null, null);
return ks;
I hop this can help you.