On Jul 09, 2005 05:15 AM, Soumyadip Modak <soumyadip@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Martin Kauss <bishoph@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote > > Hi, > > > > the configure just checks the system dependencies to build the > > system. The needed libraries are not checked until the compile > > process, JFYI. > > > > The questions was asked some month ago for a Debian package as well. > > I tried to build Open-Xchange some time ago with GNU Classpath, but > > specially for mail, necessary methods and functions are just missing. > > So what I understand is this: (Correct me if I'm wrong) > 1. Problems with servlets are solvable with free Java tools, and these > are not major showstoppers I am not aware of any servlet issues at all, tomcat for example should provide all necessary libraries. > 2. Base64 and Parserdelegator problems need some work Specially the ParserDelegator class should be part of a JDK since Java 1.2 as far as i can remember, see http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/javax/swing/text/html/parser/ParserDelegator.html and http://developer.classpath.org/doc/javax/swing/text/html/parser/ParserDelegator-source.html > 3. Main problem is that the free Javamail does not implement some > methods that are needed by OX. Correct. > Is it possible for the OX developers to work with the Classpath > developers to resolve these problems ? As far as I can understand there > is no major bottleneck other than some missing functionality, and I'm > sure that the Classpath people would love to have people collaborating > with them. :) Not sure what you mean with "to work ... to resolve these problems", but in general the answer is yes. Finally i would like to mention that Sun do a great Job for Javamail with the mail protocol support and with the supported mail servers and IMHO it will not be easy to get to the same functionality. > > We are just providing a collaboration framework and that is our > > focus. This means, if the functionality is covered by any other > > package than Sun's Javamail package one can build OX with this > > packages. > > > > Currently - AFAIK - this is not possible. > > > > The other question is what you mean with "extensive free Java tools" > > ... for some ppl. also packages offered by Sun/IBM/Bea are "free" ... > > I generally refer to the Debian Free Software Guidelines for my > definition of Free software :) > http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines > > Thanks a lot > -- > Soumyadip Modak > soumyadip.modak@xxxxxxxxx > soumyadip@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.randomink.org/soumyadip > Ciao, Martin Kauss
