Jeffrey Dever wrote:
There are still a bunch of classes that are in both HttpClient and Slide. In particular:Base64 at least is in the Commons Codec package, which is currently in the sandbox.
Base64.java
HttpsURL.java
HttpURL.java
URIException.java
URI.java
URIUtil.java
URLUtil.java
First of all, I think these should come out of Slide as part of their migration to commons-httpclient which is still underway.
Second, I thnk that these classes are too general to be part of HttpClient. They have use well beyond a http client, and so should be available to other packages without requiring the commons-httpclient.jar.
Do people agree with me? If so, any idea where these could go? Perhaps the root of org.apache.commons? or a new commons-net package? put Base64 in commons-lang, and create a new commons-uri package?
In Apache XML-RPC, we recently discovered interoperability problems with Base64, and fixed them. We will be pushing these changes upstream to Codec.
We are leaning towards introducing a dependency instead of rolling them into our JARs, as some of the contributors have found wierd classloader problems if the same class is in the classpath more than once.
I would agree with you for the others, they are useful to more than just this project.
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Ryan Hoegg
ISIS Networks
http://www.isisnetworks.net
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