Thank you for your reply Stephen.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen McConnell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "James Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2004 10:28 PM Subject: Re: Developing with James > 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 McConnell is responsible for it. He probably set it > > up so that his Merlin Repository could download JAMES. > > Yep - that would be me. > > Its related to some stuff concerning OpenIM and James running under Merlin. > > > I have no idea why there are two copies each of the Mailet jars. As for why > > there are mailet-api and mailet-impl jars, that looks like he did it out of > > habit. Separate jars implies that, and is useful when, one is the API > > (e.g., interfaces) and the other contains an implementation of that API. > > This is not the case with the mailet jars. The Mailet API is defined by > > both interfaces and classes, and there really should be only one jar. > > James, itself, provides the implementation classes for the interfaces. > > I put together the mailet-api based on an analysis of what is actually > exposed by the Mailet. The mailet-api specifically aims to limit > dependencies exposes on the API by pushing implementation artifacts into > mailet-impl. The objective it to allow the publication of the mailet > service while supporting component based mailets that interact with the api. > > I should emphasis that this is all rather experimental and there are > more than a few questions that I have concerning the approach (which > could easily be totally off the track). > > Cheers, Stephen. > > > > --- Noel > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > -- > > |------------------------------------------------| > | Magic by Merlin | > | Production by Avalon | > | | > | http://avalon.apache.org/merlin | > | http://dpml.net/merlin/distributions/latest | > |------------------------------------------------| > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
