-1 for this patch because a) there is a dependency on geronimo-common that is inappropriate for a standalone spec module b) a change was made to the impl of URLName.equals() that makes it behave differently to the RI and which I explicitly asked Alex not to make
These may seem minor but they are symptomatic of a coding approach that may lead to other deviations and I think the entire patch should be reviewed in detail. If someone steps up to do that then it may be appropriate to commit this to a separate branch until done. -- Jeremy > -----Original Message----- > From: Alex Blewitt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 5:46 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Status: JavaMail API implementation now at Alpha quality > > > I have submitted a patch [*] covering the majority of work > that I have > done on implementing the JavaMail API. Importantly, this allows > developers to now instantiate the MimeMessage class, and for simple > (text formats) messages, the MimeMessage should be usable by those > implementing transports/stores. > > There are some unimplemented features; it cannot yet handle multipart > messages, and there are issues with non-ASCII encodings at present. > Hopefully these issues will be ironed out with test cases that break > the API and thus can be fixed. I would otherwise personally > raise a bug > to record each of these cases, but I am not sure this is within the > standard use of the bug tracking tool by the geronimo team. > > I am off on holiday for a couple of weeks, and access is likely to be > sporadic; I won't be doing any coding in any case. I hope > that this set > of code gives other developers the necessary base framework > to continue > implementing JavaMail providers. > > Regards, > > Alex. > > [*] http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/ViewIssue.jspa?key=GERONIMO-80 > >
