Re: migration question re: sun.misc.BASE64Encoder

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Anthony Green wrote:
> What should we recommend people use in place of sun.misc.BASE64Encoder
> (and ...Decoder)?
>
> gnu.java.net.BASE64 is handy and does the job, but switching code to use
> that won't fly in cases where the upstream maintainer wishes to continue
> building/running with proprietary implementations.

They could simply bundle gnu.java.net.BASE64. ;)

If they are under an Apache Software Licese v.2, then the Apache 
Software Foundation's jakarta commons-codec might be a more accessible 
alternative (for ASF's own projects).

> It would be nice if we could all promote the use of a liberally
> licensed** base64 solution and mention this on the ClasspathMigration
> wiki page.

http://iharder.sourceforge.net/base64/ is in public domain. I have not 
tried it, though.

cheers,
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