We're getting close to finalizing our secure socket setup, so stay with me! The next step is to create an SSLContext. An SSLContext contains all the key and certificate information we've mentioned so far, and is used to create an SSLSocketFactory, which in turn creates secure sockets.

Once you've created an SSLContext at the start of an application, you can use it for each connection you need to make, as long as each connection uses the same keys.

To create an SSLContext, we use our factories and the SecureRandom, as shown here:

      sslContext = SSLContext.getInstance( "TLS" );
      sslContext.init( kmf.getKeyManagers(),
                       tmf.getTrustManagers(),
                       secureRandom );

Note that we've created an SSLContext of type "TLS". As you suspect, this stands for Transport Layer Security, which is the new name for the Secure Sockets Layer, or SSL. We then initialize it with the TrustManagerFactory and KeyManagerFactory objects we created a few steps back.