> Maybe we need two concepts:
>
> A ChunkCodec - like Soundex, Metaphone, Refined Soundex, Message
> digests
> And a StreamCodec - like Base64, Rot13, compression algorithms, sound
> encoding...
Sun dealt with the IO in a block/stream neutral way, where InputStream provides a
stream oriente
A lot of good points. Soundex, Metaphone, and Refined Soundex all deal
with language, it would make more sense if these classes were moved into
a language subpackage.
With regards to streams, I think it makes sense for something like
Base64 - most definitely this should be a stream oriented codec
