Interfaces and classes used by the various implementations in the sub-packages.

Definitive implementations of commonly used encoders and decoders.

Codec is currently comprised of a modest set of utilities and a simple framework for String encoding and decoding in the following packages:

- Binary codecs.
- Command line utility.
- Digests and hashers
- Common language and phonetic encoders.
- Beider-Morse codec.
- Network codecs.