Newbie questions: javadoc, secure transport, ant & gcj, library build structure

Tue Sep 2 14:58:00 GMT 2003

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On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 09:15:50PM +1000, Paul Gear wrote:
> 2. What is the recommended approach for providing secure TCP
> connections in client/server applications?
>> The Java 2 JSSE APIs seem good, but it's not clear whether or not they
> are supported under gcj (especially given that the documentation says
> "We currently do not have a list showing differences between libgcj and
> the Java 2 platform.").
>
I am working on a free software, cleanroom implementation of the JSSE
classes, called Jessie: <http://metastatic.org/source/jessie/>. The
targeted platforms are Classpath-based, and this includes GCJ.
Currently the library is in alpha stages, but I have been making a lot
of progress lately. I have not yet tried it with GCJ, but I see no
reason why it would not work.
> The GNU Crypto project seems to offer some good features as well, but
> from the documentation i read there it wasn't clear to me whether it
> provided something that would work with Sun's JDK. (I really need my
> software to work with both gcj and JDK.)
>
Jessie should be able to work on a JDK, provided that you satisfy some
of its dependencies (it relys on parts of Classpath, and uses GNU Crypto
for its crypography engines), since it uses the JSSE API and can be
"plugged in" easily.
Cheers,
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Casey Marshall || rsdio@metastatic.org
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