I'll get back to you later on this. Paulo
----- Original Message ----- From: "robert engels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "itext iText here" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 6:26 PM Subject: Re: [iText-questions] bouncy castle (Paulo Soares) > Paulo, > > Maybe there is a better way. > > I have 2 motivating factors: > > 1. Limit the deployment size. The bouncy castle jars are as large as > the iText jar. Maybe a 'thin" BC can be distributed with iText that > only contains the ASN functions? Or just implement the ASN1 functions > in iText? > > 2. Limit the outside dependencies. Since iText uses the BC api > directly, there might be compatibility problems in the future if the > BC api changes, yet other systems need the latest BC api. I am trying > to avoid Windows 'DLL Hell'. > > If the JCE does not cover needed "complex" operations that are > required, then I can see the need for using BC directly. But it seems > that most of these are fairly simple utility methods (if I understand > it correctly). > > Maybe if you were more specific about what is needed in BC that is > not available in JCE, I can work on writing that code. > > Robert ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://itext.ugent.be/itext-in-action/
