On Thursday, Aug 21, 2003, at 13:39 Europe/London, Simon Brooke wrote:
Secondly JavaMail. JavaMail (and the JAF on which it depends) are the two
remaining non-open-source packages on which my own toolkit
<URL:http://www.weft.co.uk/library/jacquard/> depends. I therefore have an
itch to scratch.
Does Geronimo plan to do a clean-room reimplementation of JavaMail? If so,
does it intend a plug-compatible clone of the JavaMail API or simply to build
equivalent functionality?
I am working on a JavaMail reimplementation. Current stage is that we've got the API class/method-list complete, though there are a few parts of the API that still need implementing (e.g. MimeMessage). I'm working my way through those, since I did most of the original API and know what needs to be done in certain classes/objects.
There are other (larger) areas that need implementation as well; for example, we don't have an SMTPTransport (or NNTPTransport), or the IMAPStore or POP3Store yet. Both of these could be done separately from the API being completed (though you'd probably have to test with dummy messages to start with).
There's also the ideas being bashed around about introducing the JavaMail API JavaDoc into the interfaces, for help with documentation et al.
Those are some ideas of where we need to go with JavaMail -- any of those sound interesting?
Alex.
