on 2/19/02 12:46 PM, "John Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> My decision to use Catalina' code is based entirely on the fact that >> Catalina is *by far* the most used piece of software on Jakarta. Something >> like 100-200,000 downloads/week. If the Base64 implementation sucked, it >> would have been discovered a long time ago. > > We have discoverd over the years that the performance of XML-RPC can be > quite difficult to predict - for some reason some XML parsers perform very > badly and yet they are perfectly good XML parsers. When did I mention that we were talking about a parser? > Sorry - Open Source licencing theology is not one of my passions;) It has nothing to do with that. It is 100% about legalities. > MinML-RPC (from http://www.wilson.co.uk) has a Base64 module which performs > pretty much as well as the old one in the Helma implementation (I have used > Hannes' benchmarks on both implementations - sometime I win sometimes, > Hannes wins!). MinML-RPC is released under a BSD licence and you are most > welcome to take what you would like from the code base. Q: Does it output a char[] or a byte[] from the decode() method? > Yes, but surely Apache XML-RPC is being developed and supported for a wider > audience than CollabNet. Or have I misunderstood something? I await your patches. -jon -- Standard rules apply: Ask any questions, and you get the job. ;-)
