Hi, On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 10:42 +1000, Stephen Crawley wrote: > Chris Burdess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > The underlying library used by the GNU providers is called inetlib. It > > provides a much lower-level API to IMAP and other network protocols. If > > you want performance, and you can live without a MIME framework, it may > > be of interest to you. > > This worries me a bit. > > While I can see that using a native library here reduces the amount of > work to get the protocols supported there are clear disadvantages: > [...] > IMO, it would be a GOOD THING if you could reimplement the mail protocol > stack(s) in Java.
Chris is talking about code that is already part of classpath: http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/inetlib http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/classpath/inetlib/ Currently it doesn't use any external libraries. But even then I don't think that would be a disadvantage if it provided robust new features when such (native) libraries were available on the platform where it was installed. Cheers, Mark
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