Danny Angus wrote:
Danny contributed the Mailet API changes. Stephen did the Avalon changes.
Other than that, I think I committed most of the changes to MAIN. And I
kept them in since until sometime this summer, IIRC. I don't know of any
features present in MAIN that are not in v2.
I feel that it's important for me for admit that while I'm glad that my changes stoked the fires of public opinion, so to speak.. the ideas expressed by everyone else in response are way better and I'd be more than happy to see all my work abandoned in favour of the approaches which I think we've accepted by lazy concensus.
In Particularly using JNDI for "avalon free" access to repository and
service resources implemented using avalon technology appeals.
+1
In fact the more I look at this the more tempted I am to suggest we go one step further and implement all of our services as EJB's (or explore what avenues Avalon provides for distributing our services) as this would give admins the choice of installing James as a single local application, or of distributing the services across a range of JVM's or hardware.
Distribution of james facilities across different JVMs is something I would be really interested in contributing to. Its also very consitent with the Avalon roadmap.
Imagine if James could have a POP3 or IMAP server (Both would be my prefrence BTW) on one machine, the incoming SMTP server on another, mailets capable of calling services (like outgoing SMTP) running elsewhere again, more than one machine acting as worksharing spool managers, and each repository being run directly on the hardware providing the storage.
Absolutely. In fact with the seperation at the component level that you already have, my guess is that getting something like a SMTP up and running as a remotely accessible service would not be so difficult.
What do you see as the complete set of independent services? POP3, SMTP and IMAP? What about thinks like the user repository?
Stephen
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