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27 lines
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
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<pkgmetadata>
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<herd>java</herd>
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<longdescription>
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Codec was formed as an attempt to focus development effort on one
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definitive implementation of the Base64 encoder. At the time of Codec's
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proposal, there were approximately 34 different Java classes that dealt
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with Base64 encoding spread over the Foundation's CVS repository.
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Developers in the Jakarta Tomcat project had implemented an original
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version of the Base64 codec which had been copied by the Commons
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HttpClient and Apache XML project's XML-RPC subproject. After almost one
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year, the two forked versions of Base64 had significantly diverged from
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one another. XML-RPC had applied numerous fixes and patches which were
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not applied to the Commons HttpClient Base64. Different subprojects had
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differing implementations at various levels of compliance with the RFC
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2045.
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Out of that confusing duplication of effort sprang this simple attempt
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to encourage code reuse among various projects. While this package
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contains a abstract framework for the creation of encoders and decoders,
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Codec itself is primarily focused on providing functional utilities for
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working with common encodings.
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</longdescription>
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</pkgmetadata>
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