Steve, Looks cool and is just what I needed. I guess just having the java mail and activation jars instead of j2ee.jar would be OK? (As would weblogic.jar from 6.0sp1 as it contains the mail stuff as well)
Les > -----Original Message----- > From: Steve Loughran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 02 May 2001 07:32 > To: ant-dev > Subject: [SUBMIT] mimemail task > > > > This is a variant of the mail task (identical syntax) which > sends all the > attached files as mime attachments. > Kind of handy if your deployment process involves emailing > zipped builds. > > It requires j2ee 1.2.1 to build and run, for the javax.mail > packages. This > is where it gets interesting, because the j2ee.jar and > jaxp.jar are about as > compatible on a classpath as protons and antiprotons are in a > contained > space. The particular problem is the sax libraries, jaxp is sealed and > whines when j2ee adds its own version. > > I can workaround it at build time, but not at run time. > > So the only way I can run this task is to have a version of > j2ee.jar with > all the sax stuff deleted. When you do that the task works > fine on windows; > some unix/mac testing would be nice to verify mime types are > consistently > handled. > > The sealing problem interesting as if it occurs for other > people then it > represents a symptom of a bigger problem: we can't have j2ee > tasks in ant > because j2ee.jar is incompatible with jaxp. While j2ee 1.3 > may avoid this by > incorporating jaxp into its own jar, because that beta isnt > compatible with > java 1.2 or earlier, we cant go that route (yet). > > Maybe I should file this as a bug. > > -steve > >
