On 7/6/01 4:43 AM, "Colin Chalmers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been using the Email utilities successfully for some time, sending
> multipart mails, but am now running into a small problem.
>
> The mail server that is used is set in the TurbineResources. Would it not be
> handy to have the ability to change this setting with a setMethod, keeping
> the TurbineResources setting as default ? I see that the MailSession is set
> in the constructor and then init() of Email class so would it be an idea to
> have a second constructor in the extended classes of Email accepting a
> hostname of a mailserver to accomodate this? If so I could write a patch and
> post it to the group.
One of the notes in one of the proposals is cleaning up the email
classes and making them a general tool. They are coupled to Turbine
right now. Criteria should be removed, and there should be a general
way to set properties.
I was thinking there could be two ways to do this:
1) You might want to provide explicit setX() methods, but
this has the disadvantage of requiring a designer to know what
the mail server is, but some people might want this. More tech
savvy people.
2) Have a standard set of properties that could be set by turbine
when it starts up. So, for example, a system property like 'mail.server'
could be set. When the email component goes to send mail and discovers
that the 'mail.server' property hasn't been set it can look to the
system for the property: System.getProperty('mail.server').
Something like this might be going on in the commons, but I haven't
looked recently. There has to be an easy way to configure components
like the email tool without binding it to one particular application.
You might want to ask on the commons list. I remember Craig talking
about dynamic bean properties in relation to this problem. At least
I think that's what he was talking about. My 2c.
>
> /Colin
>
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