Yes, I think the date formatting things should go in here as well. That fits the one format to another idea very well.
Scott > -----Original Message----- > From: Magnus ?or Torfason [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 2:01 AM > To: Jakarta Commons Developers List > Subject: RE: Codec Sandbox (was: To fork or not ...) > > > Yupp, there is a lot of Base64 out there, but a lot of it is > not according to the spec, so it does not work in general > cases (The requirement that a Base64 decoder ignore > everything except the 64 allowable letters is something that > is often broken). > > Having a single stable source for Base64 would enable people > to use it as a black box, instead of lifting only the Base64 > class from a framework (because they aren't using the > framework), fixing it, and spawning yet another Base64 class. > > Another thing that I would like to see, from the standpoint a > heavy user of XML datatypes, is a compliant ISO xxxx Date > encoder/decoder. I'm not sure if this is an orthodox view of > codecs, but I see Base64 as a datatype<->string mapping > (byte[]), and a date codec is also a datatype<->string > mapping (java.lang.Date). > > If you are interested, I have an IsoDate class that does > this. It is not fully compliant (especially in the parsing, > I would like to have a class that could parse any iso > compliant representation into a date), but maybe a start? > > Regards, > > Magnus > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Scott Sanders [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: 24. januar 2002 04:23 > > To: Jakarta Commons Developers List > > Subject: RE: Codec Sandbox (was: To fork or not ...) > > > > > > I found at least 8 in 15 minutes of looking. I didn't even make it > > through all of apache's codebase. > > > > Scott > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Paulo Gaspar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 7:57 PM > > > To: Jakarta Commons Developers List > > > Subject: RE: Codec Sandbox (was: To fork or not ...) > > > > > > > > > Yeah! Base64 is everywhere! > > > =:o) > > > > > > Have fun, > > > Paulo Gaspar > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: Sam Ruby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > > Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 4:08 AM > > > > To: Jakarta Commons Developers List > > > > Subject: RE: Codec Sandbox (was: To fork or not ...) > > > > > > > > > > > > Paulo Gaspar wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Axis (xml-apache) > > > > > org.apache.axis.attachments: > > > > > MimeUtils (using javax.mail stuff to do > > > > > "weird multipart stuff") > > > > > > > > Axis also has org.apache.axis.encoding.Base64. Something > > > that doesn't > > > > exactly seem to be in short supply around here. ;-) > > > > > > > > - Sam Ruby > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > > > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > For additional commands, e-mail: > > > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > > > <mailto:commons-dev-> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > For > > > additional commands, > > > e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > For additional commands, e-mail: > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:commons-dev-> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For > additional commands, > e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
