Serge Knystautas wrote:
> 
> I've been going through documenting all the mailets and matchers and list
> has led me to 2 thoughts...
> 
> 1. Use regular expressions
> Since there is now a Java regular expressions library, this seems very
> useful for the numerous Sender, Subject, Recipient, User, Host, etc...
> checks for matchers.  I think this would provide more flexibility in terms
> of wildcard or other matching, but the potential trade off is complexity.
> Do people think that it is too difficult for people not familiar with
> regular expressions?

Are you talking about the jakarta regexp project?
In principle, I'm fine with incorporating regexp capabilities, although
I haven't looked at any java libraries.

> 2. Site organization
> The James site as a whole really needs to be organized.  We've got the
> original goals still up on the home page, talking as if this is some
> experimental long term dream.  The closest thing to a nav bar is on the
> bottom of the page (distribution, installation, configuration, a how-to or
> two, javadocs).  With the addition of docs on mailets and matchers, and with
> some tutorials hopefully coming to write mailets or integrate with a
> database, or other information, it seems we really need to organize
> ourselves.

Fair enough!

> 
> I was looking over the Anakia capabilities that jakarta is now using, and it
> seems like a nice way to maintain style independent docs.

  On a related
> note, is JAMES going to be moving over to that site at some point?  I'm
> interested in this at some point because (I would believe)
> jakarta.apache.org gets much more traffic/eye balls than java.apache.org.
> Also, the maintenance and new projects seem to be going there anyway, and
> the use of Anakia seems like a push to continue to better organize projects.
> Any thoughts or insights on this?

I think Peter mentioned that all the java.apache.org projects were
moving to jakarta, but I don't know when.


> 
> I've completed docs on the 16 matchers that come with JAMES and am working
> through the 19 mailets.  I continue to appreciate how little I write liking
> docs. :)  After that I hope to write stuff up on user repositories (using
> them to manage the mailboxes, listservs, etc...), integrating JAMES with a
> database (spool repositories, mail repositories, aliases, listservs,
> etc...), and maybe even a mailet tutorial.

Hurrah!

Charles


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