Hi Odi, I am not requiring or implementing the feature, I was merely asking out of curiosity and to be prepared for the next time someone wants to know how to authenticate as the OS user.
I fully agree that calling sun or com.sun classes is not a good idea. But whenever we tell people they could use JNI, I very much doubt they'll actually try it. Adding native code to a Java project is a big step which few will take. If there is an internal Java API we know about, we could at least tell folks about it, point out the implementation dependency problem, and leave the decision to them. As I am using IBM JDKs, I can tell you they include plenty of sun and com.sun classes. The IBM implementation is also based on the Sun version. cheers, Roland Ortwin Glück <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 30.06.2004 09:01 Please respond to "Commons HttpClient Project" To Commons HttpClient Project <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc Subject Re: NTLM authentication to an MS Exchange web page account using HTTP Client V2.0 Roland Weber wrote: > If the latter is true, there still might be a platform-independent class > somewhere in sun.* or com.sun.*. Roland, you can safely call the sun.* and com.sun.* packages platform/implementation dependent. Apple have their own Java implementation, which is based on Sun's. If you are using implementations from IBM or BEA: They have no sun.* packages at all. Using sun packages ties your code tightly to a specific Java implementation. That is even worse than using native code, which is still portable among Java implementations. If JNI is an option, you must of course provide a specific JNI module for every supported platform. This is not a bad thing. If you had used any other language you would have needed to do it as well. You can write your application such that it runs on any platform and can use the automatic NT credentials on supported platforms only. Think of it as a plug-in. Ortwin Glück -- _________________________________________________________________ NOSE applied intelligence ag ortwin glück [www] http://www.nose.ch software engineer hardturmstrasse 171 [pgp id] 0x81CF3416 8005 zürich [office] +41-1-277 57 35 switzerland [fax] +41-1-277 57 12 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
