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Andreas Veithen updated AXIOM-418:
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Fix Version/s: 1.2.15
> Remove the dependency on JavaMail
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> Key: AXIOM-418
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AXIOM-418
> Project: Axiom
> Issue Type: Task
> Components: API
> Affects Versions: 1.2.13
> Reporter: Andreas Veithen
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 1.2.15
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> In earlier versions of Axiom, MIME processing was implemented using JavaMail.
> In Axiom 1.2.13 we use MIME4J to parse MIME messages and we have our own code
> to write MIME messages (see org.apache.axiom.mime.MultipartWriter). This
> means that we should be able to get rid of the JavaMail dependency.
> Currently, JavaMail is still used in the following places:
> 1. There are several places where javax.mail.internet.ContentType is used to
> parse MIME types. That needs to be replaced by something equivalent, maybe
> javax.activation.MimeType. Note that javax.mail.internet.ContentType is not
> used in any public API.
> 2. org.apache.axiom.attachments.lifecycle.impl.FileAccessor has several
> methods that declare javax.mail.MessagingException, although that exception
> is never thrown. Removing that exception would not break binary
> compatibility, but may break source code compatibility. However, it is very
> unlikely that any existing application code is using or extending the
> FileAccessor class (it is an SPI that is used by the Attachments class).
> 3. The classes in org.apache.axiom.mime.impl.javamail use JavaMail. They
> provide an implementation of the MultipartWriter API. However, it is not used
> by default (the default implementation is in
> org.apache.axiom.mime.impl.axiom). It only exists to allow users to switch
> back to JavaMail based MIME serialization in case issues are discovered in
> the org.apache.axiom.mime.impl.axiom implementation. Since no issues have
> ever been reported, we could move that implementation to axiom-compat so that
> it remains available but is no longer included in axiom-api.
> 4. org.apache.axiom.om.util.TextHelper has several methods that declare
> javax.mail.MessagingException. Probably TextHelper can be deprecated and
> moved to axiom-compat.
> 5. DataSourceUtils#getSize(DataSource) recognizes
> javax.mail.util.ByteArrayDataSource. The code should be changed to use
> reflection so that it works if JavaMail is not present.
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