java - work sun.misc.BASE64Encoder/Decoder for getting byte[]

Question

I am trying to use sun.misc.BASE64Encoder/Decoder, but this code:

(new sun.misc BASE64Encoder()).encode(new    
    sun.misc.BASE64Decoder().decodeBuffer("test string XML:"))

returns "test/string/XML/" I am embarrassed

Answer 1

Don't use sun.misc or com.sun classes. They are not guaranteed to be consistent between different versions of the jre.

Use commons-codec Base64.encodeBase64(..) and Base64.decodeBase64(..)