Shibboleth Developers

[Walter Hoehn <>]

When I removed commons-codec I had forgotten about the OpenSAML  
dependency.  I've put the jar back in HEAD for now, but am open to  
unifying the Base64 handling around either library.

-Walter


On May 8, 2005, at 10:42 AM, Tom Scavo wrote:

> On 5/8/05, Chad La Joie 
> <>
>  wrote:
>
> > 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).
>
> For what it's worth, I like commons-codec, which aligns with other
> Apache Commons packages we're using.  That said, I don't mind using
> the BouncyCastle stuff if that's what everyone else wants to use.
>
> I think everyone agrees we should avoid the Sun-specific classes but
> we should also avoid multiple, overlapping third-party packages.  I
> introduced the commons-codec package when I donated the artifact API
> to OpenSAML (avoiding the Sun base64 classes), but I'd be happy to
> rework that using BouncyCastle if there's consensus in that direction.
>
> Cheers,
> Tom