Shibboleth Developers

[Chad La Joie <>]

Tom Scavo wrote:
> On 5/8/05, Chad La Joie 
> <>
>  wrote:
>
> > Yes, the commons codec has been removed.  In the work I and Walter were
> > doing to get rid of the Sun JDK dependencies (which should be gone now)
> > we moved away from the Apache codec encoders (in the IdP) to the ones
> > included bc-asn1.jar.  Nothing is wrong with the Apache one, it just
> > didn't seem to make sense to have multiple encoders/decoders if we
> > didn't need them. 
>
>
> Well, I'm not familiar with the package you've moved to, so I can't
> compare, but commons-codec does everything you want, I think.  Is
> there some advantage I'm missing?

The bc-asn1.jar is just the ASN.1 decoder from the BouncyCastle JCE. 
You're right, though, the commons-codec does everything we needed, but 
so does the BC jar.  So, instead of having both around I told Walter we 
could drop the commons-codec if he wanted (just for house keeping).

What I didn't notice was that my IDE was adding the commons-codec into 
the class path anyways when I launched my app server because the 
OpenSAML project I had in my workspace needed it.

Like I said, this was just my oversight.
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