A lot of good points. Soundex, Metaphone, and Refined Soundex all deal with language, it would make more sense if these classes were moved into a language subpackage.
With regards to streams, I think it makes sense for something like Base64 - most definitely this should be a stream oriented codec. My only question relates to something like Metaphone or Soundex. The soundex algorithm is a truncated encoding that was primarily developed to encode last names - for example "O'Brien", or "Varszegi". It seems like wrapping "O'Brien" in a StringReader just to get the Soundex "O435" is overkill. In other words, even if I had a 512 character String, I'm still only producing a 4 character code ( unless I use Refined Soundex ). The only reason, I bring that up is because I need to be able to Soundex about 120,000 strings and populate a ternary search tree in a very limited time ( 2-4 seconds ). If I had to insert a "new StringReader()" into this process I'd imagine that I'd be waiting much longer to create this index. For Soundex, Metaphone, Refined Soundex, I'm more inspired by the java.security.MessageDigest class. Maybe we need two concepts: A ChunkCodec - like Soundex, Metaphone, Refined Soundex, Message digests.... And a StreamCodec - like Base64, Rot13, compression algorithms, sound encoding... -------- Tim O'Brien Transolutions, Inc. W 847-574-2143 M 847-863-7045 > -----Original Message----- > From: Jeff Varszegi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 4:02 AM > To: Jakarta Commons Developers List > Subject: [codec] Handling text encodings (one more thing, sorry) > > > I also think that if there are going to be lots of codecs in > the project over time, all the classes for a particular area > should be in subpackages, like the Base64 codec currently is. > That means that the Metaphone codec etc. should be moved > down into a subpackage, and the codec package should just > have the generic stuff. > > You're really getting this insomniac's seventy-five cents' > worth tonight. ;O) > > -Jeff > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your site http://webhosting.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
