JPasswords release, KSE PWSLIB released

Hi folks!

This is to inform you that I have completed some works and released a 
first edition of my */JPasswords /*program. It is in short a Java 
password management program. You may visit the project under 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/jpws/

Two things might be noteworth for this project.

First, I have changed my politics towards using the PWS datafile format. 
For the time being, JPasswords rests on PWS files. I felt it is worth 
making this step and giving the world a platform-independent small and 
simple program to deal with existing databases and not having to rely on 
any such experiments as constitutes the SWT environment, which I find 
highly overrated. My intention for a later development is to offer a 
second file format  as an alternative usage, allowing for additional 
application features and hopefully also for advanced security technology.

Second, along with the presented release of /*JPasswords */comes a 
separate Java service package for accessing and dealing with PWS 
datafiles. Its name is *KSE PWSLIB*. It allows any Java developments to 
make use of PWS files within the limits of the current official data 
format definition.

Finally I have to report about compatibility  problems currently arising 
from the not-up-to-date state of the PasswordSafe 2.11 version, 
regarding the file format definition. The major problem lies in the 
inability of 2.11 to handle the UTF-8 switch and format text 
accordingly. I recommend the soon development of a version that can do this.

Regards,
- Wolfgang Keller