Re: Production Deployment

[N Kapshoo]

Thanks for the detailed response, Kent.

I agree that the mail server really should be a swappable backend component
and not part of the web-app. However I need to call the APIs for creating a
user, updating pwd etc from my web application. Can you elaborate on how you
do it presently? Do you use a script or the command line to do user
management?

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 8:30 AM, Kent Butler <kbut...@englehomes.com> wrote:

> Yes you can construct Mailets in Eclipse and build a jar of just your
> custom classes.
>
> Deploy to James under apps/james/SAR-INF/lib
> You will also need to declare your Mailets in the
> apps/james/SAR-INF/config.xml
> such as
>
>      <mailetpackage>com.myco.crm.mailets</mailetpackage>
>
>         <mailet match="All" class="CRMPersonalizingMailet">
>            <debug>false</debug>
>         </mailet>
>
> We run James as a standalone app on Windows using a service wrapper like
> Tanukisoft. It's a mailserver, it only cares about having access to the
> ports it needs. You can easily do the same in Linux. IMHO it pays to
> keep your mailserver independent of your webapp; they have different
> workflows entirely and it will not serve you well to take your
> mailserver down for webapp maintenance.
>
> BTW the only time we take our mailserver down is to deploy upgrades of
> our custom Mailets. Check around for Mailet development guides, I may
> have left something out - and/or look at existing James Mailets in the
> source to get started.
>
> Kent
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sheetal Pole [mailto:sheetal.p...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 7:52 AM
> To: James Users List
> Subject: Re: Production Deployment
>
> I am not too familiar with JSR250 and JMX, so I will need to read up on
> it.
>
> I am curious on when you say you use james as a standalone application.
> Do you mean you run it as a Linux service?
> If so, how do you write your mailets/matchers and deploy them to the
> application? (Like do you use eclipse, then build, then copy??).
>
> Can you say how stable the latest version is?
>
> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 6:44 AM, Norman Maurer
> <norman.mau...@googlemail.com
> > wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > first of for your requirements current development version of james
> > would be a better fit then the last released stable one. Current
> > development version of james use spring for dependecy injection. There
>
> > is currently no war file but writing a war deployment shouldn't be to
> > hard (its on my todo list).
> >
> > I use james as standalone application (development version). When
> > using development version of james you could just inject the
> > UsersRepository into your class instance via JSR250 and use it for all
>
> > kind of user actions. The other solution would be to use jmx.
> >
> > Hope this helps.
> >
> > Bye,
> > Norman
> >
> > Ps: Feel free to poke me again
> >
> > 2010/2/11 N Kapshoo <nkaps...@gmail.com>:
> > > I want to evaluate James as an integrated mail solution for a very
> > > large
> > web
> > > application.
> > >
> > > I have successfully deployed on my local box and used JavaMail to
> > > test
> > basic
> > > email.
> > >
> > > What I am unclear about is -
> > > How are production deployments of James typically done? I would be
> > looking
> > > to support a very large volume of email and would also be writing a
> > webmail
> > > solution that sits with the rest of our application.
> > > Is James typically deployed inside a servlet container for
> production?
> > How
> > > do I go about writing mailets and deploying them?
> > >
> > > Lastly, if I want to create/delete users programmatically, how would
>
> > > my
> > java
> > > code in the container make james server api calls?
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance.
> > >
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