Hi Abdulla, nice to hear from you right here. Just so everyone understands what's going on here:
Since we need to implement ASN.1 here in our products, we will be creating a complete ASN.1 codec for MINA. We really wished that we could continue the work with the currently available (and before mentioned) ASN.1 codec attached on Apache Directory's "shared" folder. However, there is no documentation and we are short on time here, so we are starting a competing protocol. This was a bummer for us, but we had to go. Our protocol will support the full ASN.1 specification X.690 0702. Since we are going to release this codec as open source, we would send this codec to Trustin for inclusion into MINA, as he stated codecs are welcome. However, since our codec is based on the excellent work made by Abdulla (I recommend you all to take a look at his excellent contribution: http://bnotes.sourceforge.net) there would be a problem distributing the codec with the BinaryNotes code. So I suggested Abdulla to adapt the license to ASF's. Now, a whole different story: since Apache has yet to see an ASN.1 compiler, Abdulla's work could be transformed into an Apache project, since it's way ahead of anything Apache currently has. This is something that I told Abdulla he would need to search for, as I don't know the steps to do this. But I am sure he has what it needs to get there. Please let me know of your opinions on this. Thank you all from the community, Rodrigo Madera On 7/28/07, akira_ag <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello people! > I'm an author of BinaryNotes project at sourceforge. Recently to me has > addressed Rodrigo Madera with the request to change the license from LGPL > to > Apache License. And I found this forum and post. > I think that it's possible. I would like to understand how much to you it > will help. If there is a need for use in projects by Apache, I am glad to > help. > Thanks! > > > Rodrigo Madera wrote: > > > > Community, > > > > I am in the process of writing the engine (or shall we more > appropriately > > say "glue"?) as I posted on the other thread that will automatically > > generate the encoders for a given Message (or Sequence, in ASN.1 lingo). > > > > Before I go any further, there is something that only the commiters can > > tell > > me: What have you done for ASN.1 support so far? > > > > Anything nice (or sad) that you wish to say when ASN.1 and MINA are on > the > > same sentence? > > > > Our business is in the need of a library to handle complex binary > > protocols, > > and since we will be using MINA, which has not cost us a single cent, we > > will contribute everything we make as Open Source. > > > > Our current plan is to use a compiler for ASN.1 (we are looking at > > BinaryNotes) and use the generated classes for the Apache BCEL input so > we > > can get the automatic code generation for MINA Encoders/Decoders. > > > > Please share your thoughts and experience with this matter. > > > > Thank you for your help, > > Rodrigo Madera > > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Coding-ASN.1-Support-tf4138961s16868.html#a11847087 > Sent from the Apache MINA Support Forum mailing list archive at Nabble.com > . > >
