Well, seems that you've got your answer. That's the beauty of object orientation. Isn't it?. Easier maintenance. You might want to clean up a little bit the 'cut and paste' part of it. Just a quick remainder, if allowed, since you say you have not worked that much on JEE space. A mail session should be treated much like a database connection. Apart from the pooling practices, be prepared for a mail transaction to take obscene amounts of time, and be prepared to retry. Any mail server can just say "try again later" at any time; and can take forever to decide whether to accept or reject a message.
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Adam Brons <ambr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hey Everyone, > > I justed figured I'd throw this out there and see if any of you have > done something similar or think the path I'm taking is bad. > > I recently started working on a Web Application using GWT, JAX-WS, EJB > 3, ETC. I've done a lot of development on JSE, but not much beyond > JMS, Servlets, and JSP in the JEE space. > > As I was tasked with creating a new service to allow some form of > Emailing to the customer I noticed that we're using roughly the same > code "cut and pasted" in all of these individual web services for > emailing "this and that" to the customer. As part of this mailing > each of these services is attaching items to the mail message, and > using a template style setup for taking a generic message and > personalizing it. We have an Email class with the basics in it, > standard header information, attachements, etc. What the class doesn't > do is handling transforming the temple style body. > > So my thought is to extend the Email class to support each of the > individual cases for sending email and have the logic for transforms > the email, getting access to the mail service, etc encapsulated in > these subclassed version of the Email message. > > Any thoughts? > -Adam > > > -- Marcelo Morales --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
