ASN.1

[Wes McKean <we...@hotmail.com>]

Hi!

I have done some research into the ASN.1 features used by the LDAP protocol, 
and I believe that there is only a subset being used.  I believe most of the 
functionality for sending and receiving LDAP messages can be encompassed in 
8 methods.  This makes me excited, cause we can easily implement these 8 
decoding/encoding methods to get the current ASN.1 stuff out of the project 
and replace it with something of our own.

Jeff, I understand that you have an interest in this as well, so I would 
like to touch base with you tomorrow to make sure we are both not working on 
the same thing, and maybe we could colloborate on some 
development/architecture.

Let me know what you think...

Wes

BTW:  My work e-mail is down, so I don't have access to the list at the 
moment, thus I'm sending this from hotmail.com :-)

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Re: ASN.1

[Jeff Machols <jm...@apache.org>]

On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 20:42, Wes McKean wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I have done some research into the ASN.1 features used by the LDAP protocol, 
> and I believe that there is only a subset being used.  I believe most of the 
> functionality for sending and receiving LDAP messages can be encompassed in 
> 8 methods.  This makes me excited, cause we can easily implement these 8 
> decoding/encoding methods to get the current ASN.1 stuff out of the project 
> and replace it with something of our own.
> 
> Jeff, I understand that you have an interest in this as well, so I would 
> like to touch base with you tomorrow to make sure we are both not working on 
> the same thing, and maybe we could colloborate on some 
> development/architecture.
> 

Wes, that is great.  I was looking more at writing the encoder in C
using the Apache Portable Runtime libraries anyway.  I haven't gone very
far with ASN.1 stuff yet, so I don't think we will be duplicating
efforts.  I still have to shore up some things on the client side, so I
will continue on that for now.  

I would be interested to see what you have for an initial design.  If
you want to work on the Java side, I will work on the C, let me know
what you think 

Jeff
> Let me know what you think...
> 
> Wes
> 
> BTW:  My work e-mail is down, so I don't have access to the list at the 
> moment, thus I'm sending this from hotmail.com :-)
> 
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