On 1/23/06, Steve Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rory Winston wrote: > > Ive come across the com.sun.* issue before. They are part of the JVM, just > > not officially documented for public use. Usually, they are convenience > > classes written by Sun programmes who develop the JDK. AFAIK, Sun says that > > you can use them if you wish, but their use is not recommended, purely on > > the basis that they may disappear from one JDK release to the next. > > > > What are the com.sun.* classes being used here for, specifically? It may be > > possible to use "official" classes for this functionality. > > > > Rory > > From what I've been able to gather there are "official classes" as of > jdk 1.4. Prior to that these were a separate package, the JSSE. > > So I guess there are three possibilities: > > 1. Use the javax.net.ssl classes. (Out of the question because of our > mandate to support 1.3) > > 2. Do what Paul and Josejuan did - use the com.sun classes > > 3. Maybe. use the javax.net.ssl classes but document that if used with > JDK < 1.4, jsse.jar must be on the classpath. > > Has anyone on this list had experience with these type of issues? > (technical, not legal). > <snip/>
No, haven't had to deal with such a situation. But doesn't this mean that the code will only work on a subset of the 1.3 JDKs (Sun)? If so, maybe (3) isn't all that bad? -Rahul --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
