Liebezeit, Bernhard (EXT) wrote:
Hey Guys,
Reading all of this makes me truly sad. I started with JAMES roughly two months ago - and even though you are maintining a good documentation it took me 2 month to figure out why I was not capable of starting up the server with the current JDK and and one of the first stable MySQL-NT 5.0 builds.
Have you asked for help in this mailing list?
Maybe your problem is related to the jdbc driver used: you need the
latest connector/J to connect to Mysql 5.
In 2.3.0 we will remove the mm.mysql driver from James because it had
issue with new mysql releases.
Actually I intended to dig into development and contribute to. However, having
anything done with Java/JSPs since three years, I had to learn that there is no
strait way into the avalon framework, different logging mechanisms, different
connection pooling adapters, etc. I must admit that I was truly a bit naïve
thinking to start with developing extensions within a minute, especially
considering the fact that I have no much free time at hand.
What would you like to contribute?
I can help with the avalon stuff: it takes a few to understand how
avalon works but it's really easy once you get it. It's not so different
from Spring.
The point that I intend to make: I am able and willing to code, but in order to be able
to design a specific part for JAMES I am in the lack of sufficient knowledge; and for my
needs I did not find an appropriate compendium - searching the archive is fine, but
cumbersome and often misleading when you are new to it. Please do not regard this as
criticism - I am in software development for quit a while. I just wanted to submit a view
from "outside" the community
In james there are avalon components binded by the container: you can
easily understand what the components are and how they are linked by
looking to the assembly.xml.
That file gives you a great view of the high level architecture.
If there are specific areas where you think you can contribute
(matcher/mailets/pop3/smtp/spooling/repositories) I can point you a
simple path to work on it.
Best Regards
Bernhard
Stefano
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