The functionality of CertUtil.toGlobusID(String dn), CertUtil.toGlobusID(String
dn, boolean reverse), and CertUtil.toGlobusID(Principle name) is not intuative.
 From the comments on CertUtil.toGlobusID(String dn) and
CertUtil.toGlobusID(String dn, boolean reverse) it seems as though the methods
simply tokenize the DN, parse the tokens, remove commas and replace them with
slashes.  This is howerver not the case.  It actually reverses the ordering of
the tokens as well so the comment:

/**
     * Converts DN of the form "CN=foo, O=bar" into Globus 
     * format "/CN=foo/O=bar". This function might return incorrect 
     * Globus-formatted ID when one of the RDNs in the DN contains commas.
     *
     * @param dn the DN to convert to Globus format.
     * @param reverse the direction of the conversion.
     * @return the converted DN in Globus format.
     */

should actually read:

/**
     * Converts DN of the form "CN=foo, O=bar" into Globus 
     * format "/O=bar/CN=foo". 
....

*/

Notice that the values foo and bar are reversed.  When trying to figure out why
my DNs were getting reversed I decided to use the toGlobusID method with an
additional boolean parameter "reverse" thinking that specifying a value of
"true" would put my reversed DN back into the original format.  This does not
work because the default value of CertUtil.toGlobusID(String dn) and
CertUtil.toGlobusID(Principle name) is to call CertUtil.toGlobusID(String dn,
boolean reverse) with the value "true".

In order to fix my DN reverse issue I had to call CertUtil.toGlobusID(String dn,
boolean reverse) with the reverse value of false, thus telling the toGlobusID
method to not reverse my DN.  

The default value of reversing a DN should be to leave the DN in its original
order and only replace ',' with '/' according to the comment.  If the
functionality is not changed in CertUtil.toGlobusID to not reverse the DN then
the comment should be changed and user warned about the functionality.  A full
description or elaborated description of these methods are needed. 

I had to contact Rachana to find out that this was the functionality which most
developers will not have the ability to do.  
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