PEM formatted certificate to java.security.cert.X509Certificate

PEM2X509Certificate.java

import org.bouncycastle.cert.X509CertificateHolder;
import org.bouncycastle.cert.jcajce.JcaX509CertificateConverter;
import org.bouncycastle.openssl.PEMParser;
import java.security.cert.X509Certificate;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.security.cert.CertificateException;

public class PEM2X509Certificate {

    public X509Certificate loadCert(String fileName) throws IOException, CertificateException {
        FileReader reader = new FileReader(fileName);
        PEMParser pemParser = new PEMParser(reader);
        X509CertificateHolder x509CertificateHolder = (X509CertificateHolder) pemParser.readObject();
        X509Certificate x509Certificate = new JcaX509CertificateConverter().getCertificate( x509CertificateHolder );
        return x509Certificate;
    }
}