Which Java library provides base64 encoding decoding

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I am wondering which library to use for base64 encoding decoding  I need this functionality be stable enough for production use

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Guava also has Base64  among other encodings and incredibly useful stuff

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If you re an Android developer you can use android util Base64 class for this purpose

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Java 9  Use the Java 8 solution  Note DatatypeConverter can still be used  but it is now within the java xml bind module which will need to be included   module org example foo       requires java xml bind      Java 8  Java 8 now provides java util Base64 for encoding and decoding base64   Encoding  byte   message    hello world  getBytes StandardCharsets UTF 8   String encoded   Base64 getEncoder   encodeToString message   System out println encoded        gt  aGVsbG8gd29ybGQ    Decoding   byte   decoded   Base64 getDecoder   decode  aGVsbG8gd29ybGQ     System out println new String decoded  StandardCharsets UTF 8         gt  hello world   Java 6 and 7  Since Java 6 the lesser known class javax xml bind DatatypeConverter can be used  This is part of the JRE  no extra libraries required   Encoding  byte   message    hello world  getBytes  UTF-8    String encoded   DatatypeConverter printBase64Binary message   System out println encoded        gt  aGVsbG8gd29ybGQ      Decoding  byte   decoded   DatatypeConverter parseBase64Binary  aGVsbG8gd29ybGQ     System out println new String decoded   UTF-8          gt  hello world

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Within Apache Commons  commons-codec-1 7 jar contains a Base64 class which can be used to encode   Via Maven    lt dependency gt       lt groupId gt commons-codec lt  groupId gt       lt artifactId gt commons-codec lt  artifactId gt       lt version gt 20041127 091804 lt  version gt   lt  dependency gt    Direct Download

[java] Which Java library provides base64 encoding/decoding?

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