FYI: rewriting Jessie

[Casey Marshall]

I've started work on what will likely become a complete rewrite of  
Jessie, to implement the new API introduced in the J2SE version 1.5,  
which allows using SSL connections with NIO channels. The basic idea  
is to first re-implement the SSL core over the SSLEngine class, then  
to rewrite the blocking Socket implementation to use that class. I'm  
going to take this opportunity to

  - Make the dependencies cleaner, so it will no longer depend on  
GNU Crypto directly, but will rather use the Java crypto APIs  
exclusively. The only direct dependencies planned are on Classpath.
  - Write all SSL structs as "views" on ByteBuffers, to limit byte  
copying. Also, I'd like to flesh out the use of one class per SSL  
struct, and make the internal API easy to understand and extend.
  - Make extensive use of java.util.logging to provide run-time  
debugging.
  - Include a unit test suite.

I am writing this as an "external" package to GNU Classpath, so with  
a simple patch to Classpath's build configuration it can be included  
in Classpath proper. I'll be initially working on the source code in  
this Subversion repository, and anyone is welcome to join:

  http://unmodern.net/svn/repos/jessie/trunk/

Cheers!