Re: gnu.java.nio

[Meskauskas Audrius]

Craig Combs wrote:

> Two questions:
>  
> 1)  If I read this correct the classes in the package will determine 
> the encoding of input and convert it to a specified encoding that I 
> specify without needing to know the orginal encoding of the file?  Of 
> course depding that I can find a match and if I can not I assume it 
> throws and exception or defaults to the system encoding.

The FileReader reads using native encoding. If you need to read a file 
using some other charset, read from

new InputStreamReader(new FileReader(myFile), Charset.forName("my 
charset") ).

>  2) can classpath be incldued in a library of application say a search 
> engine without making the search engine GPL.  I'm using lucene and 
> would like to keep it under Apache and not GPL.  Can some clarify what 
> an independ module a little be more?

When GNU Classpath is used unmodified as the core class library for a 
program written in the java programming language it does not affect the 
licensing for distributing this program directly.

See http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/license.html for details.

Regards
Audrius.