[Bug 564] NetX depends on sun.misc.BASE64Encoder

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http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=564





------- Comment #5 from gnu_andrew at member.fsf.org  2010-10-14 21:57 -------
It is a bug.  This is even backed up by Oracle:

$ javac Test.java 
Test.java:1: warning: sun.misc.BASE64Encoder is internal proprietary API and
may be removed in a future release
import sun.misc.BASE64Encoder;

The fact that other such offending code also exists is not a good reason for us
to do it.

The motivation for this bug (and others filed under 562) is that we intend to
split out NetX and the plugin into a separate project (icedtea-web for want of
a better name).  For NetX, this will effectively be returning it to its roots
as a standalone project.  Such a project shouldn't require only IcedTea to
build.

Omair, there's no reason we can't use apache-commons, though it's probably best
to wait until the split before adding such a dependency.  VisualVM depends on
big chunks of NetBeans already.  I'd rather that than we copy chunks of code
into our code base.


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