For this specific case, I found this code for Base64, which claims to be very fast and very compact:
* http://migbase64.sourceforge.net/ Just a single class that I repackaged in my own namespaces, and changed one line of code to remove my dependency on sun.* - now I can run on Harmony. I think that providing some alerts about this dependency on Harmony website, explaining the problem (as the Sun article I posted before does) and suggesting some alternatives like migBase64, will help newcomers to understand how easy to overcome the dependency is, and motivate them to do so. Regards, Martin On 8/10/06, Tim Ellison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Mikhail Loenko wrote: > The problem is Base64 functionality is unavailable through the > standard API, so people have a choice either use unportable sun.*, > o.a.h.*, etc or create the coder from scratch Understood, I think people are 'driven' to using the non-API types though necessity rather than doing so by mistake. > Alternative to suncompat is separating all similar functionality into > a separate redistributable module that would be runnable on RI, so > that people could use it in their apps. If we could get people to change their apps then I would agree. In fact I would expect that most of the non-API functionality in common usage is already available elsewhere there if apps wanted to change (well, maybe not Unsafe, but...). But we are trying to fix it on the Harmony side. I'll go ahead an put in the suncompat module, but don't let that be the end of the debate -- it is trivial to add it and I have no qualms about removing it later if that's what we choose to do. Regards, Tim -- Tim Ellison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) IBM Java technology centre, UK. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Terms of use : http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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