On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Ryan Hoegg wrote: > Daniel Rall wrote: > > >p.s. Did the base-64 fixes make it into both 1.2 branch _and_ HEAD? > > Not yet. I think the issue is basically closed except for some > uncertainty on performance with large inputs. I was going to get around > to making a test for that this weekend. I found a tasty Project > Gutenberg text for it :)
Is it the 1.2 branch which needs the base-64 fixes backported into it? I'm all for improving the performance, but I wouldn't hold up a release on account of it. > Also, I think our changes should go upstream to Codec, and we should > change the package name on Base64.java to org.apache.commons.codec. > You're a committer on Codec, so you could make it happen. I will port the fixes to Codec. However, the XML-RPC JAR should not contain any classes in the org.apache.commons.codec package -- experience has shown me that this can lead to horribly difficult to debug class loading problem, and often result in LinkageErrors when one application includes multiple versions of the same class in its classpath. I have already experienced enough of this horror with XML-RPC's inclusion of the SAX API. The only way I've successfully debugged this problem is by dumping a list of all the classes in my app, looking for duplicates, and comparing their bytecode sizes. Software like Tomcat which uses multiple class loaders increases the difficulty of this sort of debugging exponentially. - Dan
