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 * Portions Copyright 2014 ForgeRock AS.
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/**
 * Contains the Directory Server classes for performing encoding and decoding of
 * ASN.1 elements.  This is not specifically a protocol by itself, but it is
 * used in several places throughout the Directory Server in areas like client
 * communication and internal data encoding, and technically ASN.1 elements are
 * considered to be Directory Server protocol elements.
 * <BR><BR>
 * Note that this particular implementation is limited to the subset of elements
 * that are typically used by LDAP clients.  As such, it does not include all
 * ASN.1 element types, particularly elements like OIDs, bit strings, and
 * timestamp values.
 * <BR><BR>
 * Also note that the contents of this package alone are not sufficient for a
 * highly-performant and scalable LDAP implementation.  The process of reading
 * the outermost ASN.1 sequence that comprises the LDAPMessage envelope will
 * best be done within the implementation for the LDAP connection handler.
 */
@org.opends.server.types.PublicAPI(
     stability=org.opends.server.types.StabilityLevel.UNCOMMITTED)
package org.opends.server.protocols.asn1;