Hi all,
I'm working on a web-based email sys. There are two major tasks. One is to
build a smtp daemon, and another one is to build a web interface. Orginally,
our team decided to build the the smtp daemon in c and web front-end in php.
However I, personally, want to build the whole system in java. The reasons
are as follows:
1) by using javamail, I can build the smtp daemon easily. It's because I
don't need to implement all those functions for encoding/decoding (base64,
q-printable,..), analysing the msg.
2) by making the subclasses for message, store, ..... The code I write for
the smtp daemon can be reused in the servlet
3) the architecture of the whole system is better if only one language is
used
4) the whole system is easier to impove. eg. adding a s/mine support will be
easy because there is already a package for it in java (and it's free).
However before i can say all these to our team, i need to make sure it
works.
1) I'm using dbmaker to store the msg, including attachments. Can the JDBC
driver from dbamker handle lage block of data (eg. 5mb)?
2) how stable is the daemon if i write it in java?
3) orginally we decide to use linux. However the java vm in java is slower
than others, which os+platform is better?
4) which serlvet engine (with ssl support) should i use (cheap one)? when
does tomcat support SSL?
Any other comments are welcome.
alvin
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