I think we should, eventually, shoot for a very rich JAF library. It can be really useful -- not just for JavaMail but for JAX-RPC and SAAJ too.
On 8/14/03 9:37 AM, "Alex Blewitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm a few classes short of an API for JavaMail at the moment, so I want > to notify people :-) > > I'm guessing that there will be at least one more module for the mail > APIs, probably two (API + Impl). > > However, JavaMail depends on JavaActivationFramework (JAF) for its > code. So if I submit the files as a patch/JAR, it needs to find these. > I've created a DummyJAF.jar (and/or empty classes) that can be used to > allow the compile process to go ahead, but clearly these don't want to > be part of the managed source. Is it possible to set up a dependency so > that the JavaMail depends on this DummyJAF.jar file/and/or source? > > Altrnatively, if we have a placeholder JAF module then this may also > work. > > Lastly, the copyright/license in the top of the files needs to be one > that says 'This is part of a Sun spec; you're not allowed to change > it'. Do we have one of these lying around and/or can someone mail it to > me? > > Thanks, > > Alex. > -- Richard Monson-Haefel Co-Founder\Developer, Apache Geronimo Author of: J2EE Web Services (AW 2003) Enterprise JavaBeans, 4ed (O'Reilly 2004) Java Message Service (O'Reilly 2000) http://www.Monson-Haefel.com
