Re: Fixing javamail (again)

[Christopher M. Cardona]

I would like to do the same change for trunk. Anybody got 
issues/concerns/objections to this?

Best wishes,
chris
Rick McGuire wrote:
There have been 3 javamail questions on the user list in recent weeks 
about how to resolve a NoSuchProviderException trying to use SMTP.  
These problems all had the same root cause, having the javax.mail and 
the provider implementations in separate jar files.  It's not obvious 
to most people that the dependency requirement exists and 
occasionally, even adding the dependency doesn't fix the problem.  
There was a recent problem of trying to use javamail from a Quartz job 
class where it was necessary to explicitly set the context classloader 
before requesting a transport instance to ensure the correct class 
loader was getting used.  This was a situation that could not occur 
with the Sun javamail implementation because the api code and the 
providers are contained in the same jar file.
This problem can be easily corrected if we just switched the 
references to the javamail spec file to the geronimo-javamail_1.3_mail 
uber jar that contains the merged spec and provider classes.  More and 
more users are tripping over this problem, which can be very easily 
corrected.  Are there any objections to making this change in 1.2?

Rick