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| Interface Summary | |
| ASN1Decoder | This interface defines the methods for decoding each of the ASN.1 types. |
| ASN1Encoder | This interface defines the methods for encoding each of the ASN.1 types. |
| Class Summary | |
| ASN1Boolean | This class encapsulates the ASN.1 BOOLEAN type. |
| ASN1Choice | The ASN1Choice object represents the choice of any ASN1Object. |
| ASN1Enumerated | This class encapsulates the ASN.1 ENUMERATED type. |
| ASN1Identifier | This class is used to encapsulate an ASN.1 Identifier. |
| ASN1Integer | This class encapsulates the ASN.1 INTEGER type. |
| ASN1Length | This class provides a means to manipulate ASN.1 Length's. |
| ASN1Null | This class represents the ASN.1 NULL type. |
| ASN1Numeric | This abstract class is the base class for all ASN1 numeric (integral) types. |
| ASN1Object | This is the base class for all other ASN1 types. |
| ASN1OctetString | This class encapsulates the OCTET STRING type. |
| ASN1Sequence | The ASN1Sequence class can hold an ordered collection of components with distinct type. |
| ASN1SequenceOf | The ASN1SequenceOf class is used to hold an ordered collection of components with identical type. |
| ASN1Set | The ASN1Set class can hold an unordered collection of components with distinct type. |
| ASN1SetOf | The ASN1Set class can hold an unordered collection of components with identical type. |
| ASN1Structured | This class serves as the base type for all ASN.1 structured types. |
| ASN1Tagged | The ASN1Tagged class can hold a base ASN1Object with a distinctive tag describing the type of that base object. |
| LBERDecoder | This class provides LBER decoding routines for ASN.1 Types. |
| LBEREncoder | This class provides LBER encoding routines for ASN.1 Types. |
The classes provided in this package can be used to encode and decode Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1) object types using BER (Basic Encding Rules).
Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1) is the language used by the OSI protocols for describing abstract syntax. ASN.1 as defined in ISO documents 8824.2 and 8825.2.
Basic Encoding Rules or BER are historically the original encoding rules for ASN.1. The LDAP protocol uses the BER encoding format and this package includes classes that allow ASN.1 to be encoded and decoded into the BER format.
However the classes have been built to be flexible enought to allow an application to provide its own ASN1 Encoder class. This class could encode data into any encoding format.
For example a particular application might want to use PER (Packed Encoding Rules) to encode the supported ASN.1 objects. This application would however be required to supply its own PER Encoder and PER Decoder classes. These application provided classes will need to implement the ASN1Encoder and ASN1Decoder interfaces defined in this package.
Note that LDAP uses BER encoding and the Novell provided package already includes a BEREncoder and BERDEcoder class.
These classes can be used by 3rd party developers that wish to develop new LDAP controls or extensions. These classes could also be used by an arbitrary JAVA applcation that wishes to encode and decode data as defined in the ASN.1 format.
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