Java Programming

I have a certificate that I have signed with my own CA. I have also acquired my CA's certificate, along with its CRL.

I'm struggling to validate the signed certificate. I've created a certificate path with the signed certificate as the first cert, and my CA's certificate as the final cert. When I try to run the code, I get the following error:

java.security.cert.CertPathValidatorException: revocation status check failed: no CRL found
        at sun.security.provider.certpath.PKIXMasterCertPathValidator.validate(PKIXMasterCertPathValidator.java:139)
        at sun.security.provider.certpath.PKIXCertPathValidator.doValidate(PKIXCertPathValidator.java:316)
        at sun.security.provider.certpath.PKIXCertPathValidator.engineValidate(PKIXCertPathValidator.java:178)
        at java.security.cert.CertPathValidator.validate(CertPathValidator.java:250)

Below is the code I tried to use to validate the certificate path. The array passed to this function has two entries - the first is the signed certificate, the second is the CA's certificate. Both certificates were generated by an external program.

public static boolean validateCertificatePath(X509Certificate[] certs) 
								throws InvalidAlgorithmParameterException,
										NoSuchAlgorithmException {
		
	CertPath path = CertificateValidator.createCertificatePath(certs);
		
	if (path == null) {
		throw new RuntimeException("Could not create certificate path!");
	}
		
	TrustAnchor ta = new TrustAnchor(certs[certs.length - 1], null);
	Set<TrustAnchor> taSet = new HashSet<TrustAnchor>();
	taSet.add(ta);
		
		
	PKIXParameters params = new PKIXParameters(taSet);
	CertPathValidator validator = CertPathValidator.getInstance(
			CertPathValidator.getDefaultType());
		
	try {
		CertPathValidatorResult result = validator.validate(path, params);
	}
	catch (CertPathValidatorException e) {
		e.printStackTrace();
		return false;
	}
		
	return true;
}

The error suggests I need to somehow get my CRL involved in this procedure, but I'm not sure how I can do this. I'm able to load the CRL into a java CRL object, I'm just unsure of how to use it!

Additional side question: it seems rather ugly to have created a trust anchor object, and embed it into a HashSet in the way that I have. If someone knows a neater way I could have done this, please let me know!