Helo, James developers! What a shame that it has been so late that I've been told about [SummerOfCode2005] programm. For it is just the right thing at the right time - I'm a student at Department Of Physics, Moscow State University http://www.msu.ru/en/ and I'm really keen on programming.
Two years I've studied Java and have been browsing apache projects as an example of good Java programming style on an advice of a more knowlegeable friend. I'm familiar with jakarta-commons, -logging, -collections, have had a look at Tomcat codebase (wow that's HUGE). Before that I was devloping C and C++, Perl. I've got a general understanding of internet protocols (HTML, HTTP) and version control systems - cvs a little of svn. Well to cut the long story short - I'm interested in IoC style programming and James for me is a good chance to get my hands on the _real_ IoC containers: Phoenix and ECM. I've had an extensive tour of current James internals and now an idea of the current design. Well - I'm impressed. Also I've gotten myself familiar with the FASTFAIL proposal. As I understand it the current desing is all very good but at extreme spam loads we need something quicker reacting. As I understand this project I'm to somewhat redesign the current James - or rather grow a new subdesign in parallel - before mailing message ever gets to processors tree and even before bytes received from the wire get wrapped into a MIME message we should have a framework similar to Tomcat chain of handlers that would be able to perform some basic actions - most important to reject the TCP connection way before the message gets placed into the spool. To tell the truth I've been tempted to spend more time digging IoC apache code for some time now but this Google programm with a monetary prize is just the right incensitive for me in the right time - although we generally don't pay for primary university education here in Russia I could have really really used a bit more money this year :) I know the deal-line is really now. I think I will be able to submit a former proposal in the course of the next 24 hours, but the main question as I understand it - will there be a mentor available for me in such a short time-frame? Again please execuse me chiming in at the very last moment - do you think I've got a chance? Best success to James project, Sergey Lubinskiy --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
