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).
>
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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

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