Welcome Mihai, Pretty long email you sent there. Like he already mentioned we met and discussed about the subject. I haven't dug deep int whirr to see what this will imply but having a way to deploy James on clusters, easy sounds good.
I also just found out that we (James) can apply for MSDN subscriptions [1] with access to a lot of MS software (interoperability tests)[3], including Azure cloud access [2]. so we can test this. I like the idea because it will allow James to get into the Cloud faster, which is the trend but I hope it will also make deployment easier. I know Mihai personally and I think highly of him but I also may be biased in this. What do you think about this proposal? Thanks, [1] https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/committers/donated-licenses/msdn-subscription.html [2] http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/pricing/member-offers/msdn-benefits/ [3] http://blogs.msdn.com/b/govdev/archive/2010/08/25/what-is-an-msdn-subscription-really.aspx 2012/3/27 Mihai Soloi <[email protected]>: > Hello, > > I'm an eager computer science student in my first year of M.Sc. My coding > skills are composed mainly of the Java language family including the > enterprise side of it. My research project is based on the cloud > environment, i am working on a bag of task price optimization application > that allows users to compare cloud providers and automatically chose which > instance is most suitable for their application in particular. Outside of > school i am a java enterprise developer and my projects include creating > and maintainting internal tools for the company i am working for, as well > as writing tests and identifying issues. > > I've been speaking with committers from both WHIRR and JAMES in person and > am enlisted to several mailing lists and in this process I've figured out > that i'd like to allocate my time creating a new feature for an opensource > project. I've been playing with WHIRR lately and I definetly see a > posibility through which I can improve the way JAMES is deployed, and make > it deployable on the cloud environment. Thanks to the GSOC last year, JAMES > now has a mailbox implementation on HBASE. This will allow the use of the > features jclouds provides and that are implemented in WHIRR such that > starting a distributed mailing cluster on Amazon or Rackspace would just > take a property file configuration of WHIRR and of JAMES. This would have a > lot of benefits like: > > - easier stress testing > - automated deployment > - integration testing > - benchmarks > - having just the SMTP server even without mailstore is helpfull, > providing users with a warranty of server uptime. > > Also this aspect would also benefit on working for JIRA issues JAMES-1387 > and JAMES-1388. This way JAMES would me more "cloud friendly". > > Sincerely, > Mihai Soloi -- Ioan Eugen Stan http://ieugen.blogspot.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
