On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 8:52 PM, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think that should be avoided unless the API is also being changed in
> an incompatible way, and then only if it really is impossible to
> maintain backwards compatibility.
I think there are excellent reasons to change the API in codec.
Reasons include lack of support for streaming in most cases, lack of
support for integration in SAX or StAX streams and the like, which
could be relatively easy with standard interfaces. Take, for example,
http://www.jarvana.com/jarvana/view/org/apache/ws/commons/util/ws-commons-util/1.0.2/ws-commons-util-1.0.2-javadoc.jar!/org/apache/ws/commons/util/Base64.html
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