On Jul 09, 2005 09:54 AM, Chris Burdess <dog@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Martin Kauss wrote: > > > 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. > > GNU provides the servlet API 2.4: > > cvs -d anoncvs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:/cvsroot/classpathx co servletapi > > If a package is needed I can make one. > > > > 3. Main problem is that the free Javamail does not implement some > > > methods that are needed by OX. > > > > Correct. > > I haven't heard any issues raised on classpathx-javamail@xxxxxxx or > submitted as bugs or patches at > > http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/classpathx > > GNU JavaMail provides all the API methods provided by the JavaMail API. > If OX depends on com.sun APIs or on undocumented session properties, > this is an issue for OX to resolve. If there is functionality you want > exposing, there should be no problem, but you have to let us know. > > > 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. > > GNU JavaMail doesn't explicitly support servers, it implements the > published standards. Sun's implementation supports 3 providers > (IMAP4, POP3, SMTP). GNU JavaMail supports 6 providers (IMAP4rev1, POP3, > SMTP, NNTP, mbox, Maildir) and we had SASL and STARTTLS support long > before Sun. Arguably we provide considerably more functionality. > -- > Chris Burdess > Hi, first of all i want to state that i do not want to start a discussion like vi/emacs, linux/windows or something similar. For us, freedom of choice is importend and if the classpath project fits the needs - it is just fine. Only one statement i want to clarify: I wrote that the Javamail API supports servers - maybe i should say that it has been tested against several servers (like mentioned in the notes, http://java.sun.com/products/javamail/NOTES13.txt). I will discuss the issue of "undocumented" calls at the beginning of the next week with our developer team and i will check again the classpath API because - like i wrote - i tested some month ago and at this time some methods were not included. I want to be up-to-date. Please be patient until we have investigated the details. Best regards, Martin Kauss
