Can you recommend another name then?  util doesn't do it for me.

Thanks,
     Aaron

On 3/22/06, John Sisson (JIRA) <[email protected]> wrote:
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> http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GERONIMO-1761?page=comments#action_12371512
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> John Sisson commented on GERONIMO-1761:
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>
> I agree we should be giving credit.  AFAIK, the standard way is to use the 
> NOTICE.txt file.
>
> The geronimo-util module doesn't contain any crypto implementations, it is 
> just an abstraction layer for crypto implementations.  I don't think crypto 
> is a good name for it considering the other stuff it contains such as:
>
> * An encoders package (e.g. Base64) that are used by the remoteDeployUtil and 
> the KeyStoreGBean.
>
> * An ASN.1 package that is used by the KeyStoreGBean and AFAIK, OpenEJB uses 
> some classes in some corba support (X509 names).
>
> John
>
> > Change geronimo-util module to geronimo-crypto, give credit where credit is 
> > due
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >          Key: GERONIMO-1761
> >          URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GERONIMO-1761
> >      Project: Geronimo
> >         Type: Bug
> >   Components: core
> >     Versions: 1.0
> >     Reporter: Aaron Mulder
> >      Fix For: 1.2
>
> >
> > The util module holds a bunch of crypto-related stuff.  Speculation is that 
> > it's the non-encumbered code from bouncycastle.  It should be in a more 
> > accurately named module and package, since it's not just generic "util" 
> > code.  It would also be nice to put a note in every file header saying 
> > where it's from, or at least in NOTICE.txt perhaps.  There may be 
> > improvements we want to track?
>
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