RE: Removed temp committer privs

2004-11-30 Thread Stephen McConnell
Thanks Serge - good luck with future direction. Cheers, Steve. > -Original Message- > From: Serge Knystautas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 01 December 2004 04:02 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Removed temp committer privs > > We voted back in January

RE: Migrate from CVS to SVN

2004-11-07 Thread Stephen McConnell
> -Original Message- > From: Noel J. Bergman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 07 November 2004 18:38 > To: James-Dev Mailing List > Subject: Migrate from CVS to SVN > > I propose that we migrate from CVS to Subversion ASAP (I should have time > to do it during ApacheCon next weekend).

RE: Container direction for James

2004-10-18 Thread Stephen McConnell
> -Original Message- > From: Roy Henderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 18 October 2004 18:52 > To: 'James Developers List' > Subject: Container direction for James > > Hi, > > A recent question to the Avalon list resulted in a very clear "Phoenix is > no longer supported" response

gump compile error

2004-10-17 Thread Stephen McConnell
Last run from gump generated the compilation error listed below. Before I start digging into this does anyone have any immediate suggestions (just for reference the build is working fine locally). [x:javac] /usr/local/gump/public/workspace/james-server/target/build/main/org/apac he/james/secur

build and gump updates

2004-08-27 Thread Stephen McConnell
Just a heads up on some planned surgery of the MAIN build procedures. Over the last week we have updated a lot of definitions in Gump supporting Avalon projects and currently these are all building nicely. We do have some dependency problems relating to Excalibur content and to resolve this I'll

RE: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: james-server/james-server failed

2004-08-21 Thread Stephen McConnell
Theoretically speaking .. the next Gump run should be ok. Steve. > -Original Message- > From: Gump Build Robot [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 18 August 2004 09:09 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: james-server/james-server failed > > To whom it may engage... >

RE: Patching Phoenix

2004-08-16 Thread Stephen McConnell
ASAIU a fork of the Phoenix codebase has been setup under the James CVS (somewhere). Probably the best thing to do would be to add you patch as a comment on the JIRA 307 report. Cheers, Steve. -Original Message- From: Hes Siemelink [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 16 August 2004 15:10

RE: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: james-server/james-server failed

2004-08-07 Thread Stephen McConnell
Can someone provide me with the details of the bouncycastle artifact needed for this update? In the ibiblio maven repo there is bouncycastle-jce-jdk13-112.jar - is that ok? http://www.ibiblio.org/maven/bouncycastle/jars/ We will also need to setup update the gump deps. Steve. > -Origina

RE: Migration ... change for Thread Pool

2004-07-29 Thread Stephen McConnell
> -Original Message- > From: Noel J. Bergman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 16:42 > To: Avalon Developers List; 'James Developers List' > Subject: RE: Migration ... change for Thread Pool > > > Are you referring to the Excalibur Thread package? > > Only partia

RE: Avalon - moving away from ?

2004-07-29 Thread Stephen McConnell
> -Original Message- > From: Alex Karasulu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 16:03 > To: James Developers List > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Avalon - moving away from ? > > On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 09:27, Paul Hammant wrote: > > This is an enabler, not migra

RE: Avalon - moving away from ?

2004-07-29 Thread Stephen McConnell
and James MAIN HEAD has been building and running against Avalon releases successfully for more than a year including operation runtime validation throughout that period. Stephen. > -Original Message- > From: Danny Angus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004

RE: Migration ... change for Thread Pool

2004-07-28 Thread Stephen McConnell
> -Original Message- > From: Noel J. Bergman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 06:50 > To: Stephen McConnell > Cc: James-Dev Mailing List; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Migration ... change for Thread Pool > > Stephen, >

Killer Reason (was RE: Avalon - moving away from ?)

2004-07-28 Thread Stephen McConnell
> Do others have their own killer reasons right now? I've got some killer reasons to get into some restructuring once James is on svn. For example - breaking out James subsystems into discrete units enabling: * better management of unit tests * improved separation of api and implementation

Re: Cornerstone confusion

2004-07-19 Thread Stephen McConnell
Jason Webb wrote: Don't think so. What are the actual compile errors that come up when you exclude cornerstone store impl? Of all these errors (ignoring the warnings) the last error in the list (SimpleConnectionManager) seems to be the strangest as there appears to be a conflict between pack

jdbc3.present

2004-07-18 Thread Stephen McConnell
In the build procedure for james there is a test to see if the jdk that the build is running in contains java.sql.SavePoint. The presence of this class causes the replacement of a token in the following file: org/apache/james/util/mordred/PoolConnEntry.java This means that the build result is

Re: Cornerstone confusion

2004-07-18 Thread Stephen McConnell
Stephen McConnell wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm confused about the Cornerstone setup in 3.0. To get 3.0a1 to compile (mostly) I need to add the following to the include.properties file (and build.xml): cornerstone-connection-impl.jar=${candidates.dir}/cornerstone-connection-impl-

Re: Cornerstone confusion

2004-07-17 Thread Stephen McConnell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm confused about the Cornerstone setup in 3.0. To get 3.0a1 to compile (mostly) I need to add the following to the include.properties file (and build.xml): cornerstone-connection-impl.jar=${candidates.dir}/cornerstone-connection-impl- 1.0.jar cornerstone-store-impl.jar

Re: Committing to HEAD

2004-07-13 Thread Stephen McConnell
Serge Knystautas wrote: Jason Webb wrote: I've checked out HEAD (I think :)) to check something and it no longer builds as it complains about various cornerstone problems. You mean MAIN. :) HEAD means the very end of a branch, compared to a datestamp or tag checkout. So - just to confirm - it wou

Re: Committing to HEAD

2004-07-13 Thread Stephen McConnell
Jason Webb wrote: I've checked out HEAD (I think :)) to check something and it no longer builds as it complains about various cornerstone problems. Are there newer Cornerstone libraries available, or do code changes need to be made? If they do I'm quite happy to make them, I just need to know I'm s

Current State: Success

2004-07-10 Thread Stephen McConnell
Looks like we have a successful James build in gump. http://brutus.apache.org/~gump/public/james-server/james-server/index.html Cheers, Steve. -- |---| | Magic by Merlin | | Production by Avalon | |

Re: 3 errors - input needed

2004-07-09 Thread Stephen McConnell
Noel J. Bergman wrote: For now I've simply copied ListUtils into james/util ListUtils is also in Commons Collections. The same origin. Commons Collections is in the 2.x branch, and I've no problem putting it into the v3 branch. It's done - now using commons-collections ListUtils. Steve. -- |

3 errors - input needed

2004-07-09 Thread Stephen McConnell
Based on the last gump run (completed a few minutes ago) we are down to three compilation errors. I already corrected one of these (commons pool dependency) but I wanted to post a note concerning the remaining two errors. The two errors are due to the fact that I have not included excalibur-c

updates

2004-07-08 Thread Stephen McConnell
Have just committed a few updates that james peeps may want to look over. Changes include eliminate of dependency of excalibur.io and updating of the code to remove references to long since deprecated excalibur-thread interfaces. Just for reference - the gump running periodic builds and provi

Re: [GUMP@brutus]: james-server/james-server failed

2004-07-08 Thread Stephen McConnell
Noel J. Bergman wrote: Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.avalon.phoenix.tools.xdoclet.PhoenixXDoclet Could someone please check if the jar file referenced by /usr/local/gump/packages/phoenix-client.jar actually contains org.apache.avalon.phoenix.tools.xdoclet.PhoenixXDoclet.

Re: locating the james build failure

2004-07-07 Thread Stephen McConnell
Adam R. B. Jack wrote: Just before the error - ant is reporting that it is dropping a bunch of phoenix references because the gump outputs are not found - and logically as a consequence we hit the error concerning the class not found. Good point. Looks like two absolute paths are being concatenated

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: james-server/james-server failed

2004-07-06 Thread Stephen McConnell
Gump Build Robot wrote: -INFO- Failed with reason build failed CLASSPATH : /usr/local/gump/packages/phoenix-client.jar: - at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(

james on svn?

2004-07-06 Thread Stephen McConnell
I'm digging around in James HEAD looking at build procedures, dependencies, gump, etc. etc. - trying to figure out how to set things up so that they are nice and clean. I started to think "ok - we could move this to there and that to here..." and then I remembered we are on CVS not SVN. Hence

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: james-server/james-server failed

2004-07-02 Thread Stephen McConnell
Noel J. Bergman wrote: Could whoever activated Gump for this project disable it? It seems that James's build process is not compatible with Gump, or it was not setup right. No one did anything recently (which may be the problem). The reason we're finally getting Gump notices is that the pre-requ

Re: My Status, and James RoadMap

2004-06-21 Thread Stephen McConnell
Steve Brewin wrote: Stephen McConnell wrote: Steve Brewin wrote: As I understand it, different containers vary in their depth of support for the Avalon lifecycle. As I remember from way back, we could dynamically modify configurations if the container supported the requisite, but optional

Re: My Status, and James RoadMap

2004-06-21 Thread Stephen McConnell
Steve Brewin wrote: Danny Angus wrote: My take on the container is that we it to just be there, support our code, be free of memory leaks and crashes, and otherwise stay out of our way. Agreed. And i don't normally pay it much attention, but with people talking about Merlin I wondered what your ide

Re: My Status, and James RoadMap

2004-06-17 Thread Stephen McConnell
Noel J. Bergman wrote: OK guys, James 2.2.0 is released. That's it from me for probably the next week or so. I have something next week that I really must focus on. After that, I'll get onto the branch merger. Conjectured Roadmap: Release James X (2.3, 3.0, don't care) based upon the merged

Re: index.html

2004-06-17 Thread Stephen McConnell
Noel J. Bergman wrote: Get your hands on the latest versions.. We put significant milestones, and potential release candidates in the download area. Download area is a href to http://cvs.apache.org/dist/james/ which has nothing in it. Because the latest IS the 2.2.0 Release. I figure that te

index.html

2004-06-17 Thread Stephen McConnell
From index.html Get your hands on the latest versions.. We put significant milestones, and potential release candidates in the download area. Download area is a href to http://cvs.apache.org/dist/james/ which has nothing in it. Cheers, Steve. -- |---| | M

Re: [jira] Resolved: (JAMES-297) Expose component manager in org.apache.james.James to support Avalon powered Mailets

2004-06-14 Thread Stephen McConnell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message: The following issue has been resolved as WON'T FIX. Resolver: Danny Angus Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 8:54 AM The Mailet API will never expose Avalon. Ever, period. Dany - it seems to me that your confusing services with a component model. Exposing a mech

Re: [jira] Commented: (JAMES-297) Expose component manager in org.apache.james.James to support Avalon powered Mailets

2004-06-14 Thread Stephen McConnell
Albert Kwong wrote: Anyways, I have made some changes to JamesSpoolManager so that it can load any avalon component implementing the Mailet interface as regular mailets. If anyone is interested in the code, do let me know. Yes - I'm interested. Steve. -- |---| |

Re: Gump builds

2004-05-27 Thread Stephen McConnell
Noel J. Bergman wrote: Stephen McConnell wrote (on jakarta commons): Noel J. Bergman wrote: And I would love to have James (both branch_2_1_fcs and MAIN) building with GUMP. One way to get a lot more value back from Gump for the James project would be to separate build descriptions for the

Re: Request for nightly builds ... build fails - more info

2004-05-14 Thread Stephen McConnell
Roy Henderson wrote: .. managed to capture the earlier part of the build errors and it appears to be failing due to a missing package javax.mail Should this be provided as part of the James download or do I need to get this from somewhere else? If so, where do I place it so it can be found during t

[CANDIDATES] avalon release candidates - round 1

2004-04-30 Thread Stephen McConnell
The following Avalon release candidates have been posted to http://www.apache.org/~mcconnell/candidates * avalon-framework (api/impl)4.2 * avalon-logging 2.0 * excalibur-lifecycle (api/impl) 1.2 * excalibur-pool (api/impl) 2.0 * excalibur-thread (api/impl)2.0

Re: Error Imap2

2004-04-02 Thread Stephen McConnell
Mauro Braggio wrote: i found the error, missing the library org.apache.avalon.cornerstone.services.connection.ConnectionManager and all org.apache.avalon.cornerstone.services.*, in my CVS build. How can i get it? http://www.apache.org/dist/avalon/cornerstone-connection-api/ http://www.apache.o

Re: Developing with James

2004-03-21 Thread Stephen McConnell
Noel J. Bergman wrote: Marco, Hi, of the jars at the following address: http://www.apache.org/dist/java-repository/james/jars/ which ones I need in order to develop a custom mailet/matcher? As I said to you earlier, we are not responsible for that packaging. My guess is that Stephen

Re: Autogeneration or handcoding?

2004-02-16 Thread Stephen McConnell
Noel J. Bergman wrote: Noel J. Bergman wrote: I am just getting ready to commit Steve Shorts JMX extensions. To where? MAIN? Well both MAIN and branch_2_1_fcs Ah, that's cool. :-) The patch removes the need to handcode the .mxinfo files by using the Phoenix supplied doclet Is this a build

[merlin] logging, file rotation, etc. etc.

2004-01-26 Thread Stephen McConnell
Merlin 3.3 (a.k.a CVS HEAD) now includes: * a plug-in logging implementation * a default implementation supporting the much requested rotating file strategies * support for multiple logging factory types and multiple targets * improved category management * complete separation of

[merlin] james wiring diagram

2004-01-16 Thread Stephen McConnell
The following is a text report of the wiring diagram generated by Merlin when deploying the James Mail Server as a composite component. It's kind of interesting to see the bigger picture. Cheers, Stephen. --- Application Model --

Re: Sieve needs a home!

2004-01-07 Thread Stephen McConnell
Steve Brewin wrote: Serge Knystautas wrote: Steve Brewin wrote: 126 classes and 161 JUnit tests (tip of an iceberg) later I have a server neutral Java implementation of Sieve - RFC 3028. Now it needs a home! Nice! I suggest making it a separate CVS module, managed by the James PMC. You mean

Re: newbie question about nbio -questiion

2003-12-29 Thread Stephen McConnell
Serge Knystautas wrote: The last paragraph in the volano report conclusions: "The good news is that Dan Kegel's C10K Problem has been solved in Java 1.3, even when using the original blocking Java input and output methods, and even when using modest hardware. The bad news is that the Java ve

Re: Monitoring

2003-12-06 Thread Stephen McConnell
Steve Short wrote: As far as JMX is concerned the root kernel is already MBean enabled and is an active event generator (reflecting changes to kernel state). What still needs to be done is the exposure (via the kernel) of the subsidiary applicance mbeans - but more internal event structure

Re: Monitoring

2003-12-06 Thread Stephen McConnell
Alex Karasulu wrote: Yes this is the next critical step. I think everyone at Avalon would be in favor of this since it has surprisingly become the basis for IoC in the J2EE container world. Yes, I'm all for it as Noel says! Once the repo release is complete is suspect this is the next priorit

Re: Monitoring

2003-12-06 Thread Stephen McConnell
Noel J. Bergman wrote: Stephen J. McConnell wrote: Right now I'm in the process of pulling together the next release of Merlin. The main *feature* of the new release will be a much cleaning embedding strategy based on a bunch of improvements from Alex (Apache Directory Project). If

Re: Monitoring

2003-12-05 Thread Stephen McConnell
Noel J. Bergman wrote: The Monitor service would be exposed via JMX (automatically thanks to Phoenix and hopefully Merlin). The monitor service configuration would allow declaration of groups and act as a factory for other components that wish to be monitored. My suggestion would be

Re: Monitoring

2003-12-05 Thread Stephen McConnell
Steve Short wrote: I can do it using JMX calls but if Stephen McConnell is reading - please treat this as a feature request for Merlin's JMX implemtation. I'm reading ;-) Right now I'm in the process of pulling together the next release of Merlin. The main *feature* of the new

Re: CURRENT direction for James :-)

2003-11-18 Thread Stephen McConnell
Noel J. Bergman wrote: While on the subject of direction, what do we want to do before cutting the next major release? - Do we want to take the current code as-is? - Do we want to take the current code + latest Avalon, which means pulling in Component->Service changes? +1 (please) Steve.

Re: Future direction for James

2003-11-14 Thread Stephen McConnell
Soeren Hilmer wrote: Well I believe that Merlin is a must (IMO Phoenix is dying), but apart from that JBoss etc. is not that interesting. Geronimo might be interesting when it sees the light (is Geronimo Merlin based?) Geronimo is not Merlin based. Geronimo is a J2EE container whereas Merli

Re: Status of JMShe kernel is fully JMX controllabole

2003-11-04 Thread Stephen McConnell
Steven Harris wrote: First time poster (so bare with me). If or when we move this thing from phoenix to merlin doesn't merlin have jmx integration already? Only partially. Today - only the kernel is fully JMX manageble. A MBean is defined for appliance instances (the component scenario ma

Re: Merging plan (was Build process in maven?)

2003-11-04 Thread Stephen McConnell
Noel J. Bergman wrote: Nitpick: JMS is a J2EE technology, not an EJB technology. I have no experience using JMS, but it seems overkill for many purposes. I've always had a fondness for the COS Event Service, myself. Umm, blush - me too! Stephen. -- Stephen J. McConnell mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Merging plan (was Build process in maven?)

2003-11-04 Thread Stephen McConnell
Noel: I'm cc'ing Avalon dev. Perhaps we can try to get some assistance on this - after all, the upside is certainly interesting. Stephen. Noel J. Bergman wrote: Stephen McConnell wrote: Noel J. Bergman wrote: But something I'm still not clear on. Under a unit test

Re: Merging plan

2003-10-30 Thread Stephen McConnell
Danny Angus wrote: Steve, echoing Serge.. 2. enhanced configuration error handling No repeated stack trace dumps, and tying an error to the line number (and column!) in the configuration file. This has been a thron in our side for a while, it would be nice to have meaningful and concise erro

Re: Merging plan

2003-10-30 Thread Stephen McConnell
Noel J. Bergman wrote: Harvesting user requirements concerning Avalon containment: 1. enhanced logging management 2. enhanced configuration error handling 3. remotely accessible services (e.g. via JNDI) JMX. JMX support at the kernel level is already in place, support for internal manag

Re: Merging plan

2003-10-30 Thread Stephen McConnell
Serge Knystautas wrote: Steve, As long as you're harvesting, just to clarify these... :) Stephen McConnell wrote: Harvesting user requirements concerning Avalon containment: 1. enhanced logging management It seems you have very flexible logging configuration right now, but

Re: Merging plan

2003-10-30 Thread Stephen McConnell
Danny Angus wrote: Serge Knystautas wrote: I'm still waiting for the Avalon containers to stabilize basic server features like friendly configuration errors, logging management, stuff like that, and am looking forward to the new releases we'll get with 3.0. Me too. Harvesting user requirements

Re: Merlin Config Files for James

2003-10-30 Thread Stephen McConnell
Steve Short wrote: Thanks - this worked first time - very cool! LOL - I should hope so!! Steve. Steve -Original Message- From: Stephen McConnell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 1:34 PM To: James Developers List Subject: Re: Merlin Config Files for

Re: Merlin Config Files for James

2003-10-30 Thread Stephen McConnell
Steve Short wrote: Stephen McConnell, I wanted to start using some James components in new and interesting ways and I was thinking of using Merlin as the container for this to reduce the amount of configuration (read assembly.xml and environment.xml) I needed to do. I've found a number o

Re: Merging plan (was Build process in maven?)

2003-10-30 Thread Stephen McConnell
Danny Angus wrote: Danny contributed the Mailet API changes. Stephen did the Avalon changes. Other than that, I think I committed most of the changes to MAIN. And I kept them in since until sometime this summer, IIRC. I don't know of any features present in MAIN that are not in v2. I f

Re: Merging plan (was Build process in maven?)

2003-10-29 Thread Stephen McConnell
Noel J. Bergman wrote: But something I'm still not clear on. Under a unit test the BSF mailet would be declared under the James configuration. I was just using those matchers as examples. For testing, I think you want to have similar code available within Merlin, itself, able to access wha

Re: Merging plan (was Build process in maven?)

2003-10-29 Thread Stephen McConnell
Noel J. Bergman wrote: Can you fill me in on BSF? I'm not Steve, but ... http://jakarta.apache.org/bsf/ Also: http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/[EMAIL PROTECTED]&msgNo=9147 That has a BSF matcher and a BSF mailet written by Steve. We want to get them into v3. Thanks - penny has dropped

Re: Merging plan (was Build process in maven?)

2003-10-29 Thread Stephen McConnell
Noel J. Bergman wrote: Excalibur IO is depricated in favour of Commons IO. However, the cornerstone-store package used a number of IO utilities not available within the commons-io package So we need commons-io, No - you don't need commons-io (I just mentioned that Excalibur IO was depric

Re: Merging plan (was Build process in maven?)

2003-10-29 Thread Stephen McConnell
Noel J. Bergman wrote: 2. Do an api/impl split (which will make me happy) Where do you see that we don't? [warning - I'm probably rambling] I'm talking about a physical split that would result in the following artifacts: * james-server-api-VERSION.jar * james-server-impl-VERSION.jar *

Re: Merging plan (was Build process in maven?)

2003-10-29 Thread Stephen McConnell
Noel J. Bergman wrote: As for formal testing, we still don't have much. Bench and live testing, basically. For example, when I get home, I'll test Soren's patch by setting up a schedule, and sending mail to a dead gateway. I don't know what Avalon has done in terms of facilitating component t

Re: Merging plan (was Build process in maven?)

2003-10-29 Thread Stephen McConnell
Serge Knystautas wrote: I think that will be messy since there has been so much changes on each, but I don't have a better suggestion. grunt grunt grunt. This really could expose our Archiles heel though, which is a lack of adequate testing to make sure the merged version works well. Have w

Re: Merging plan (was Build process in maven?)

2003-10-29 Thread Stephen McConnell
Noel J. Bergman wrote: Everything from Avalon on which James is dependent has gone though an official release. Your list (Freudian slip? :-)) is missing Phoenix, although I believe that there is a release later than we are using. Woops! Honestly - it just didn't occur to me. Possibly Freudi

Re: Merging plan (was Build process in maven?)

2003-10-29 Thread Stephen McConnell
Danny Angus wrote: 2. Discuss and resolve the mailet API changes. I propose we abandon many of the changes made to the HEAD, and adopt only those changes made to the branch as well. The repository access and database access is likely to be superceded by JNDI. I propose that we keep whatever

Re: Merging plan (was Build process in maven?)

2003-10-29 Thread Stephen McConnell
Serge Knystautas wrote: Noel J. Bergman wrote: Really the biggest hurdle is a stable Avalon release. :) I would use the latest release packages from Avalon, and once we get merged, I think it makes sense for Stephen to add configuration files for a James package using Merlin as well as our

Re: Build process in maven?

2003-10-28 Thread Stephen McConnell
Noel J. Bergman wrote: Amusingly enough, I was just asking Dion that question last night. I do suggest that we make the effort to merge the branches before we re-do the build process, at this point. +1000 --- Noel - To unsub

Re: Build process in maven?

2003-10-28 Thread Stephen McConnell
Serge Knystautas wrote: Any opinions on migrating to doing builds using maven? I have only cursory experience with it, but it's been generally positive, and it helps address the javamail.jar and activation.jar issues. Maven will not help you with the javamail.jar and activation.jar issues

Re: Missing Blocks are Fatal

2003-10-23 Thread Stephen McConnell
The problem you are seeing is generated by the container you are using. I.e. it isn't a James issue. Stephen. Kenny Smith wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to get a new installation of 2.2-dev working and I'm running into this error: org.apache.excalibur.containerkit.lifecycle.LifecycleException: Com

Re: Exposing classes with Merlin

2003-10-22 Thread Stephen McConnell
Noel J. Bergman wrote: The level of exposure of these classes to client code is a function of the container support for isolation. If your running James in Phoneix then these classes will be exposed. If you running under Merlin then they will be isolated to the implementing container. For examp

Re: candidates/commons-collections

2003-10-22 Thread Stephen McConnell
Noel J. Bergman wrote: Commons-collection is a dependent jar from the cornerstone threads component (actually the dep traces back to the latest excalibur-threads release). OK. And apparently no issues with those classes being exposed to client code. At one point, I had thought that there

Re: candidates/commons-collections

2003-10-22 Thread Stephen McConnell
Noel J. Bergman wrote: Stephen, Why is Commons Collections in the candidates directory? Should that be one level up in lib/? Commons-collection is a dependent jar from the cornerstone threads component (actually the dep traces back to the latest excalibur-threads release). Steve. --- Noel

Re: Dependency Problem with MAIN branch

2003-10-19 Thread Stephen McConnell
Noel J. Bergman wrote: Its working now. Thanks. :-) But why did you remove the junit checks? According to me its checked into cvs. I.e. no remote downloading required. Steve. --- Noel - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PRO

Re: Dependency Problem with MAIN branch

2003-10-19 Thread Stephen McConnell
Its working now. Steve. Noel J. Bergman wrote: I was trying to build the main branch today, and ran into these errors: Resource: mail-1.3.1.jar Recovery: Get the mail-1.3.1 jar from the mail-1.3.1 distribution at http://java.sun.com/products/javamail/ and place

Re: Dependency Problem with MAIN branch

2003-10-19 Thread Stephen McConnell
Noel J. Bergman wrote: I was trying to build the main branch today, and ran into these errors: Resource: mail-1.3.1.jar Recovery: Get the mail-1.3.1 jar from the mail-1.3.1 distribution at http://java.sun.com/products/javamail/ and place it in /home/noel/ASF/

Re: James & OpenIM story? (next move?)

2003-10-09 Thread Stephen McConnell
Alexis Agahi wrote: On Tuesday 07 October 2003 19:08, Noel J. Bergman wrote: Steve, Merlin doesn't have support for JMX and one of the goals on the James roadmap is to improve monitoring / management via JMX. Quite correct. However, today James does use better logging than Merli

Re: Compile Problems

2003-10-08 Thread Stephen McConnell
David Liles wrote: For a couple days now I have been trying to configure JBuilder to run the Ant script with James (2.1.3) but have not been successful. I am wanting to be able to do this so I can develop locally. are there any other developers who are doing this? If not, how are people dev

Re: James & OpenIM story?

2003-10-07 Thread Stephen McConnell
Noel J. Bergman wrote: Steve, Merlin doesn't have support for JMX and one of the goals on the James roadmap is to improve monitoring / management via JMX. Quite correct. However, today James does use better logging than Merlin supports, and does not use JMX. Today. So the logging is

Re: James & OpenIM story?

2003-10-07 Thread Stephen McConnell
Steve Short wrote: Merlin is fine, although not quite where James can use it yet as a standard platform. The primary issue, AFAIK, is Merlin's logging support, and Steve is working to fix it. Also Merlin doesn't have support for JMX and one of the goals on the James roadmap is to impr

Re: Excalibur Logger Improvements

2003-10-03 Thread Stephen McConnell
Noel J. Bergman wrote: I know we can rotate on size, but what would be the easiest way to keep just the above sort of size limited log? Is there a suitable log implementation already provided? The way I deal with this is to create child loggers to seperate out thes

Re: Excalibur Logger Improvements

2003-10-03 Thread Stephen McConnell
Stephen McConnell wrote: Noel J. Bergman wrote: Stephen McConnell wrote: Noel J. Bergman wrote: While on this topic ... James is a Mailet container. We have a single log channel for all Mailet log messages. However, James might want to change the priority so that a particular

Re: Excalibur Logger Improvements

2003-10-03 Thread Stephen McConnell
Noel J. Bergman wrote: Stephen McConnell wrote: Noel J. Bergman wrote: While on this topic ... James is a Mailet container. We have a single log channel for all Mailet log messages. However, James might want to change the priority so that a particular mailet uses DEBUG priority

Re: James build

2003-10-01 Thread Stephen McConnell
Noel J. Bergman wrote: The real problem is that the names used to report missing .jars are hard-coded rather than being the properties containing the names of the actual .jars used. Please submit a patch to fix this properly. :-) It's done! Thanks, Steve. :-) Were there o

Re: James build

2003-10-01 Thread Stephen McConnell
Steve Brewin wrote: Stephen McConnell wrote: It's done! I've updated the check-targets.properties to reference and report the correct mail jar name and tied the default.properties reference to use the check-targets.properties values. Steve. And being picky, how about the

Re: James build

2003-10-01 Thread Stephen McConnell
Noel J. Bergman wrote: The real problem is that the names used to report missing .jars are hard-coded rather than being the properties containing the names of the actual .jars used. They are bound to get out of sync. unless someone remembers that they need updating. Please submit a patch to

Re: is 3.0 a dead branch

2003-09-18 Thread Stephen McConnell
Noel J. Bergman wrote: It would be nice to get to a position where patches are not applied against non-development branches (i.e. only accept patches against HEAD). The point is that we had two development branches. One based upon the current stable API, and the other with some experim

Re: is 3.0 a dead branch

2003-09-18 Thread Stephen McConnell
merlin website. Its totally generated via a maven based build. Site updating and distribution building is now almost trivial (ie. around 5 mins for a totally new site and distribution archive). Cheers, Steve. --- Noel -Original Message- From: Stephen McConnell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

is 3.0 a dead branch

2003-09-18 Thread Stephen McConnell
I'm currently running an instance of James based on CVS HEAD. Looking at some of the recent comments on the dev and user lists it appears that updates are being applied to 2.1/2.2 and that HEAD is now not really HEAD at all. Should I be dropping 3.0a1 in favour of 2.2 (which I'm not too keen

Re: Updating Avalon jars

2003-09-08 Thread Stephen McConnell
Noel J. Bergman wrote: The cornerstone suite of components were released a couple of days ago. James CVS is already updated. A vote on the release plan for Merlin is also underway. Stephen, unless Merlin has been updated so that it supports our configuration as-is, I don't think we want to

Re: Mail attributes and sqlResources.xml

2003-09-08 Thread Stephen McConnell
Serge: The cornerstone suite of components were released a couple of days ago. James CVS is already updated. A vote on the release plan for Merlin is also underway. Steve. Serge Knystautas wrote: Vincenzo Gianferrari Pini wrote: P.S. I committed both branch_2_1_fcs and HEAD; comparing the

Re: [VOTE] Jason Webb as comitter

2003-09-08 Thread Stephen McConnell
Serge Knystautas wrote: Danny Angus wrote: I'd like to propose that Jason Webb be made a commiter on this (James server) project. Get the ball rolling with my.. +1 Who started this thread? I didn't remember seeing it and can't find it in eyebrowse. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=106

Re: probably bug in LocalDelivery

2003-09-08 Thread Stephen McConnell
Danny Angus wrote: Have recently changed a bunch of things related to DNS, MX records, and the configuration and location of my local james installation. In this process I've managed to establish an error condition and on investigation I've located a possible bug in the LocalDelivery mailet (Ja

probably bug in LocalDelivery

2003-09-08 Thread Stephen McConnell
Have recently changed a bunch of things related to DNS, MX records, and the configuration and location of my local james installation. In this process I've managed to establish an error condition and on investigation I've located a possible bug in the LocalDelivery mailet (James HEAD). In Loc

Re: Useful error messages

2003-09-02 Thread Stephen McConnell
Noel J. Bergman wrote: So I did some digging . .. and in the James source for RepositoryManager I noticed the following: We inherited that code from Cornerstone when we were told that in order to fix bugs in the Cornerstone code, we needed to take that into our module so that PeterD cou

Re: Useful error messages

2003-09-02 Thread Stephen McConnell
Noel J. Bergman wrote: As I understand it from your previous notes, Merlin is primarily short in the area of log configuration? It's the reverse - well almost. The reverse would suggest that Merlin is long in the area of short configurations which doesn't really man anything to me. Huh? Steph

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