Dale Peakall wrote:
Hi, could I enquire about the status of the ASN.1 implementation used
by Apache DS for it's LDAP implementation?
In the web-site and associated documentation I see reference to
several different ASN.1 implementations: snikers, twix, snacc4j etc.
Which implementation is being used by ApacheDS? Is it suitable as a
general purpose ASN.1 implementation? e.g. does it support explicit
as well as implicit encodings (or is it the other way round - I
remember that X.500 only uses one - but can't remember which).
Is the LDAP implementation a hand-rolled parser, or is it generated
from an ASN.1 compiler? Is there an ASN.1 compiler that can generate
code that is compatible with the ASN.1 implementation?
Hi Dale. ATM, all the ASN.1 encoders/decoders are hand crafted.
Emmanuel Lecharny and I have been goofing around w/ a compiler for the
past year or two but never have had enough time to generate a critical
mass. We got together at ApacheCon EU the other week and have a renewed
vigor in spite of our lack of free time; i.e. we have a lot of good
intentions.
It would be fantastic if you wanted to help in our effort!
Regards,
Alan
