Excellent! -- thanks Miguel and team. Regards, Tim
Miguel Montes wrote: > As it was announced by Iris Gastañaga we are contributing the packages > javax.crypto and java.math on behalf of ITC (Córdoba Technolgy Institute). > We have been developing this code for several months and we believe it is a > valid contribution. Our code not only implements the full 5.0 API but also > uses 5.0 features and syntax. As 5.0 is a stated goal of Harmony we hope > that a 5.0 VM will be available soon. > We are also contributing a set of test cases for both packages. > > Below there is a short description of the contribution. We will soon > contribute also an implementation of java.rmi. > > > > *Package name* > **javax.crypto > * > Package Description* > This is a clean room implementation of the package javax.crypto as specified > in the JDK 5.0. It requires the existence of other java packages, in > particular java.security and java.util. It can be used to replace jce.jar in > the jdk. > > *Current Status* > The package is almost fully implemented. It does not implement the > ExemptionMechanism logic. > > *Testing > * Unit and integration tests (and their documentation) are provided with the > code.* > * > > *Implementation Notes > The code uses heavily J2SE 5.0 features, such as generics, so it requires > 5.0 VM and libraries (for instance java.security). > It has been tested against Sun SDK, removing the original jce.jar and > replacing it by ours. > > * > > > > > *Package name* > **java.math > > *Package Description* > This is a clean room implementation of the package java.math as specified in > JDK 5.0. > > *Current Status* > The package is fully implemented. Some methods are fairly optimized (for > example multiplication combines paper-and-pencil and Karatsuba algorithms). > > *Testing > * Unit and integration tests (and their documentation) are provided with the > code.* > * > > *Implementation Notes > The internal representation for BigInteger is two-complement (this is > different from the sign-magnitude implementation already donated to > Harmony). BigDecimal uses only BigInteger's public interface and implements > the full 5.0 specification (which has about twice as many methods as in 1.4). > The code uses J2SE 5.0 features, so it requires 5.0 VM. It has been tested > against Sun SDK. > > * > ** > > > > > -- > Miguel Montes > -- Tim Ellison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) IBM Java technology centre, UK.
