Re: Integrating James with other applications

[Gregory Pierce]

Well in the hosting environment I'm looking at there is one 
UI/controller application and everything has to integrate with that 
environment. Integration is a requirement of the design for a variety 
of reasons - but mostly because that's just they way they want it :) As 
such I'm trying to find the best way to do that. Most certainly I could 
strip down the code and do something custom and then be in integration 
hell forever as James moves forward, but I have to ask - is the idea to 
model sendmail as a system service or to provide an application level 
service for sending and receiving email. If its the former, then yes - 
embedding is kinda pointless. If its the later then there should be 
some sort of API or remoting service that allows an application to tell 
James what to do.

On Monday, October 13, 2003, at 01:44 PM, Ryan J. McDonough wrote:

I joined this list to figure out how to best integrate James. This is
something I've been pondering myself for a while now and I thought of
serveral things I'd like to be able to do from another apps servers 
such
as JBoss. The only thing I can think of now is being able to 
dynamically
add/remove users and aliases from James from my application. If those
methods were available within our application, it could make things 
very
easy.  I don't know how well James supports JMX and JNDI, but if these
methods are accessible remotely I'd be living a dream. If not, I'd be
interested in aiding in that area.

The only advantage I might seeembeding James  is runnig only 1 process.
Other than that, it  seems like you can just use the Java Mail APIs or
use a JNDI lookup to access an EJB you might be using or some other
resource. Or you could have a mailet invoke a web service or servlet.
Seems like embeding might be overkill in most cases, and Tobe makes an
excellent point.
Ryan-

tobe wrote:

Gregory Pierce wrote:

Hi folks,

I've been using James successfully for a while now and would like to 
embed James into another application for webhosting. I've been 
trying to figure out what the best methodology is for doing this 
since the Avalon container is fairly stand-alone and I cannot 
'instantiate' james from a webhosting tool and call functions on its 
API from inside another program.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Greg
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Gregory,

what do you have in mind?

I think a valid question to ask yourself is what should you be able 
to do with james from inside another program?

/tobe

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