Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: RE: [Ethereal-dev] Dissector in Java

["Andreas Sikkema" <andreas.sikkema@xxxxxxxx>]

> If you would implement such a wrapper, beware that the 
> libethereal API isn't stable and will change from 
> Ethereal version to version.

I've maintained a C++ based plugin for Ethereal for a while, 
but that was before the api was put into a library. So I'm 
not sure if my experiences still apply.

The biggest problem for me was that I had to recompile the 
plugin for each new ethereal release.

The advantage I had was that I was the toolmaintainer for
Ethereal at the company, so I was also the one to define 
which version people were advised/forced to use. So I 
could spare myself some work by skipping one or two 
releases...

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Andreas Sikkema

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