> I would be -1 regarding any contamination of the Mailet API with
container
> specific interfaces.
Me too, what he said. And... I'll fake a new identity and vote twice if I
have to ;-)
> And if/when we do add things, I would adopt a
> Listener interface approach, just as is done in the Servlet and Portlet
> APIs.
Sounds reasonable to me, in fact I quite like this.
Call me old fasioned but I'm fond of the listener pattern.
>if we need to (and can) have Processor extend Mailet
Oh we can all right they're pretty much identical.
The problem is we currently don't have (sorry Serge!) a truly compelling
reason not to.
However I believe that making processor listen for a set of lifecycle
events probably gives us that.
d.
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