Hi Simon,

If you look for example to the ActiveMQ JMS Queue used by james, we may imagine the bus can deployed on different servers, with each servers serving some incoming smtp requests, and injecting the mails in the distributed JMS queue.
We could also imagine create some james images to be deployed in EC2.
When james will be OSGIed, it could be deployed in a distributed OSGI solution (newton,... or whatever).

So yes, I can be with you about the notion of "Cloud of components" or "Component Cloud" for james.
I suppose this kind of topic have already been discussed around.
For james, I would see (thinking loud) something like MaS (Mail as a Service) in a future.

Back to basics, we are still willing to find a place/name for the SpoolManager and JamesServer. You can read more on James architecture and development on these very alpha pages:
- http://james.apache.org/server/3/dev_architecture.html
- http://james.apache.org/server/3/dev_build.html
- http://james.apache.org/server/3/dev_extend.html

Tks,

Eric


On 23/10/2010 17:47, Simon Funnell wrote:

The last time I commented on such things I went a little wild and spewed a bit too much. I will keep it more succinct this time but it is worth saying.

I think the use of the word 'container' is a really bad term to use for expressing the notion of modern networked software.

If I was to put in my two cents I would say James server is a 'synergistic and empathetic network of components arranged as a modular enterprise mail server'.

Container terminology use is profuse so it might be difficult to use other terms. I do think it would be worth discussing what it 'is' exactly because I think container suggests a particular viewpoint where another might be more appropriate.

Actually, as I sit here writing I might have had an idea, what about 'Cloud of Components' or 'Component Cloud' with all this cloud computing business about at present.

Could it be that James Server is a Component Cloud of type Modular Enterprise Mail Server?

I don't know if that's a joke or if I am actually being serious.

Regards,

Simon

Align packages hierarchy of the services
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                 Key: JAMES-1074
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JAMES-1074
             Project: JAMES Server
          Issue Type: Improvement
    Affects Versions: 3.0-M1
            Reporter: Eric Charles
            Assignee: Eric Charles
             Fix For: 3.0-M1


We need to align package service hierarchy to have stable api, uniformity and osgi-deployable.
For example, the proposed hierarchy for a "mail" service is:
org.apache.james.mail.api (in the mail api project)
org.apache.james.mail.lib (in the mail library project)
org.apache.james.mail.jpa (in the mail jpa impl project)
org.apache.james.mail.jcr (in the mail jcr impl project)
....
The conf files and spring-beans.xml need to be updated according to the repackaging.


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