Today's updates

[Ryan Hoegg <rh...@isisnetworks.net>]

Hi all,

I went to use CVS head today and maven wouldn't build it because of some 
test failures.  I have updated the project.xml to reflect our abstract 
Tests, but Base64Test and LiteXmlRpcTransportTest were failing as well.

As Apache Commons Codec was recently released as a stable component, I 
have integrated that version of Base64.  This has raised a couple issues:

- Base64.encode() and Base64.decode() throw exceptions now.  In HttpUtil 
and SimpleXmlRpcClient I have simply caught the EncoderExceptions and 
rethrown RuntimeExceptions because in the current version of Base64 the 
exceptions are not actually thrown.  I also swallowed the 
DecoderException in SimpleXmlRpcClient and just refused to decode 
anything that throws a DecoderException.  In WebServer and XmlWriter I 
handled the Exceptions in a cleaner way, preserving current 
functionality.  In DefaultTypeFactory, I simply decoded broken Base64 
data to an empty byte[], since our previous implementation silently 
removed broken data from the stream anyway, most probably leaving 
garbled data.
- LiteXmlRpcTransportTest failed because a previous test took some time 
to close the connection to the local server.  I added a little retry 
loop which fixed that.

Of course, the dependency conversations will begin again.  Commons Codec 
is yet another dependency, and in CVS HEAD even the applet will depend 
on it.  We will need to sort this out.  I had an idea I want to play 
with using Maven voodoo that might resolve both this, and other 
dependency issues such as Commons Logging.  After I flesh it out and try 
it I will ping you all back.

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Ryan Hoegg
ISIS Networks
http://www.isisnetworks.net