In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Serge Knystautas writes: >How is this possible? JavaMail 1.0 came out in Jan/Feb 1998, Java came >out in Feb 1996. That doesn't leave much room for "several years" of >Commons Net predating JavaMail.
If you're not trolling, you are nitpicking. The thrust of my email was that the two do different things and have/had different goals. Commons Net is descended from NetComponents which predates JavaMail 1.0 as a publicly available API. Whether it's two years (couple) or three years (few or several) or 1.5 years is a minor point. The datum is relevant only in so far as to explain that Commons Net is/was not reinventing the wheel. My recollection was that JavaMail 1.0 was released in December of 1998. I stand corrected. Time flies. I also recall that JavaMail 1.0 had a buggy IMAP provider and no POP3 provider at the time, which is why NetComponents was still being used by many for email at the time; so I may have been thinking of JavaMail 1.1. Today, the FTP functionality is what most people care about, despite its ancient design. JavaMail models a mail system and Commons Net provides basic support for common IETF network protcols. It's like comparing apples and oranges. daniel --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
