On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Markus Wiederkehr <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 6:52 PM, Robert Burrell Donkin > <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 5:47 PM, Robert Burrell Donkin (JIRA)
<snip> >>> ATM the name of the main module is 'core' but perhaps some other name would >>> be better. >> >> opinions > > I think core is okay for now; later we are probably going to split it > into parse, store and dom anyway. comprehensively a mime document efficiently to storage is a common use case. for example, downstream in IMAP (and potentially more sidely in James) we need to parse a message efficiently in a way that allows efficient retrieval and searching of parts of the message and so on. the nature of storage may change but a common interface needs to be presented. it seems to me that mime4j might usefully develop an API and multiple storage backends for a standard parsed storage form for MIME documents which could be used more widely. opinions? - robert
