Keep up the good work guys! Cheers, Trustin
On 7/29/07, Rodrigo Madera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > . > > > > > -- what we call human nature is actually human habit -- http://gleamynode.net/ -- PGP Key ID: 0x0255ECA6
