So today I found myself needing to test base64 encoding in Java so I could compare the same results on the RPG end. Being that it took me longer than necessary to put the code together I thought I would post it online. Note this code is compiled using JDK 1.5 (aka 5.0).

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The person who organizes my travel itinerary always puts a joke at the end of the document and the latest was one related to programming so I though I would post it here (slightly modified – the strike-throughs are what I omitted and the bolding is what I added :-)
The boy Microsoft programmer is smoking [...]

For those of you who haven’t heard, WDSC is no longer. It is being replaced by RDi (Rational Developer for IBM i). They haven’t taken a completely different direction. It is still based on eclipse and has all the same tooling we have grown to love like edit, compile, search, and debug [...]