On Jul 09, 2005 01:21 PM, Martin Kauss <bishoph(a)open-xchange.org> wrote:
On Jul 09, 2005 09:54 AM, Chris Burdess <dog(a)bluezoo.org>
wrote:
> Martin Kauss wrote:
> > > So what I understand is this: (Correct me if I'm wrong)
> > > 1. Problems with servlets are solvable with free Java tools, and these
> > > are not major showstoppers
> >
> > I am not aware of any servlet issues at all, tomcat for example
> > should provide all necessary libraries.
>
> GNU provides the servlet API 2.4:
>
> cvs -d anoncvs@savannah.gnu.org:/cvsroot/classpathx co servletapi
>
> If a package is needed I can make one.
>
> > > 3. Main problem is that the free Javamail does not implement some
> > > methods that are needed by OX.
> >
> > Correct.
>
> I haven't heard any issues raised on classpathx-javamail(a)gnu.org or
> submitted as bugs or patches at
>
>
http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/classpathx
>
> GNU JavaMail provides all the API methods provided by the JavaMail API.
> If OX depends on com.sun APIs or on undocumented session properties,
> this is an issue for OX to resolve. If there is functionality you want
> exposing, there should be no problem, but you have to let us know.
>
> > Finally i would like to mention that Sun do a great Job for Javamail
> > with the mail protocol support and with the supported mail servers
> > and IMHO it will not be easy to get to the same functionality.
>
> GNU JavaMail doesn't explicitly support servers, it implements the
> published standards. Sun's implementation supports 3 providers
> (IMAP4, POP3, SMTP). GNU JavaMail supports 6 providers (IMAP4rev1, POP3,
> SMTP, NNTP, mbox, Maildir) and we had SASL and STARTTLS support long
> before Sun. Arguably we provide considerably more functionality.
> --
> Chris Burdess
>
Hi,
first of all i want to state that i do not want to start
a discussion like vi/emacs, linux/windows or something
similar. For us, freedom of choice is importend and if the
classpath project fits the needs - it is just fine.
Only one statement i want to clarify:
I wrote that the Javamail API supports servers - maybe i should
say that it has been tested against several servers
(like mentioned in the notes,
http://java.sun.com/products/javamail/NOTES13.txt).
I will discuss the issue of "undocumented" calls at the beginning of the next
week with our developer team and i will check again the classpath
API because - like i wrote - i tested some month ago and
at this time some methods were not included. I want to be up-to-date.
Please be patient until we have investigated the details.
Best regards,
Martin Kauss
Hi again,
as i told you we have tested the current
GNU classapth javamail version against OX.
Here are the results:
The complete part "Rights" is missing in the classpath
implementation or i was not able to find it
(
http://www.gnu.org/software/classpathx/javamail/javadoc/alphaindex.html).
However, there is another big issue:
If you take a deeper look into the implementation,
related to the errors you get from your compiler,
you see that the methods just do not match:
http://www.gnu.org/software/classpathx/javamail/javadoc/gnu/mail/provider...
http://java.sun.com/products/javamail/1.3/docs/javadocs/com/sun/mail/imap...
There are some other minor issues, but the ones above
are really big ones.
I am not sure what was meant with this "undocumented" stuff,
but maybe somebody can comment this and our results.
Best regards,
Martin Kauss