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Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Dissector in Java

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Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 18:50:51 +0200
Honestly,
I do not think that someone has made a java wrapper for ethereal's API
(which BTW changes often).

I do not think that it would be feasable to do.
I do not know which licencing problems would be there.
I believe that even if done it would be simply too slow.

L

On 10/19/05, Richard Drexler <R.Drexler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm just starting in working with ethereal and intend to make a plugin for
> our private protocol. This protocol is completely implemented in Java and I
> don't want to reimplement it in C for ethereal for several reasons. One
> reason is, each time we extend our protocol we have to change the plugin
> too.
>
> The Java implementation is done in a way, it would be easy to extend it for
> usage with ethereal. The missing links are two interfaces one calling some
> java methods and another which allows our java program to call ethereal's
> functions.
>
> Maybe someone has done it before or expect it to do.
>
> Best regards
> Richard Drexler
>
>
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