[java] import sun.misc.BASE64Encoder results in error compiled in Eclipse

Yup, and sun.misc.BASE64Decoder is way slower: 9x slower than java.xml.bind.DatatypeConverter.parseBase64Binary() and 4x slower than org.apache.commons.codec.binary.Base64.decodeBase64(), at least for a small string on Java 6 OSX.

Below is the test program I used. With Java 1.6.0_43 on OSX:

john:password = am9objpwYXNzd29yZA==
javax.xml took 373: john:password
apache took    612: john:password
sun took       2215: john:password

Btw that's with commons-codec 1.4. With 1.7 it seems to get slower:

javax.xml took 377: john:password
apache took    1681: john:password
sun took       2197: john:password

Didn't test Java 7 or other OS.

import javax.xml.bind.DatatypeConverter;
import org.apache.commons.codec.binary.Base64;
import java.io.IOException;

public class TestBase64 {
    private static volatile String save = null;
    public static void main(String argv[]) {
        String teststr = "john:password";
        String b64 = DatatypeConverter.printBase64Binary(teststr.getBytes());
        System.out.println(teststr + " = " + b64);
        try {
            final int COUNT = 1000000;
            long start;
            start = System.currentTimeMillis();
            for (int i=0; i<COUNT; ++i) {
                save = new String(DatatypeConverter.parseBase64Binary(b64));
            }
            System.out.println("javax.xml took "+(System.currentTimeMillis()-start)+": "+save);
            start = System.currentTimeMillis();
            for (int i=0; i<COUNT; ++i) {
                save = new String(Base64.decodeBase64(b64));
            }
            System.out.println("apache took    "+(System.currentTimeMillis()-start)+": "+save);
            sun.misc.BASE64Decoder dec = new sun.misc.BASE64Decoder();
            start = System.currentTimeMillis();
            for (int i=0; i<COUNT; ++i) {
                save = new String(dec.decodeBuffer(b64));
            }
            System.out.println("sun took       "+(System.currentTimeMillis()-start)+": "+save);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            System.out.println(e);
        }
    }
}