- Refactor the Message class hierachy. I would like to see if we can have a single represenation of a Mail for the whole system. 'Mail sources', e.g. Protocols, Mailboxes, other services (Fetchmail) could use a standard set of factory methods to create mail objects (one that takes a set of properties, another an input stream etc). At the very least I would like to push more functionality up the hierachy and see it reused across the protocols and mailboxes.
- Revisit NIO. In order effectively use NIO we would need to modify protocol to work in a manner that does not require a 1:1 correlation of threads to connections. My suggestion would be to not change the existing Protocol but introduce a new protocol class (NIOProtocol?) that would work in a non-blocking manner and use channel/buffers rather than streams (or possibly our own I/O abstraction). Then as we introduce new protocols (IMAP, MAPI...) we use the NIOProtocol as the base class. Also allow the services using the old protocol to run side by side with newer services and migrate them as time dictates. The one issue is supporting JDK 1.4 and SSL together. We could use a adaptor to allow newer protocols to work with the existing Server as it is possible to create a Channel from an InputStream. It won't be as scalable as the NIO implemenation but wouldn't significantly worse than the existing system (you end up with an extra layer of buffering between the channel and the stream). It would just give users/customers the option of making the system more scalable if their infrastructure allows. Mike. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3875161#3875161 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=3875161 ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_ide95&alloc_id396&op=click _______________________________________________ JBoss-Development mailing list JBoss-Development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-development
