I'm not sure actually if JNI is what you want. Basically it lets you call C functions (ie from a dll if you are using windows) from Java.
The idea of telneting in, ie. in java I guess using a Stream is a way you can talk to the SMTP/POP processes of XMail for one. To call the current XMail Admin command line tool you could do that with shell calls form java - this is the simplest of the three. If you want to write a simple java admin tool - use option three. If you do, I can be your first user as I have been wanting such a tool :). Alas I have zero time at the moment so I couldn't develop it, but I would be more than happy to help with any questions if I can. If you want some tool which can send emil or read pop email for whatever reason use option 2 (I was going to do this as a way of downloading bulk emails from a single remote server and delivering them to xmail user accounts a bit like pop3links, but instead from 1 account). Again I don't have the time to do it so I found another way. Option 2 requires you to bone up pretty heavily on the RFC's too. Option 1 I guess you would use if you wanted some sort of wrapper for XMail - why you would need that i'm not sure. So I wouldn't consider the JNI, unless you have somthing else in mind which would benifit from it :) Cheers, Will. On Tuesday 01 July 2003 12:57, Benny wrote: > Basically my goal is to create a Java package that anyone could use in > there java programs to talk to the XMail Server. > I would be looking to incorporate features of all the other great admin > tools, but some seem to be missing some features that i of course want, > hence the reason for the idea. Plus, the ability to use it to create gui's > in other OS's. And probably the biggest goal is too give XMail even more > helpers/tools/developement libraries :). > > I am a beginner in the Java area, but I have written some pretty useful > stuff already. So... I have never worked with JNI, but I would probably > check into that first, since it sounds more useful than my other method of > telneting in. Probably more secure too? Faster? > > I am actually pretty surprised that no one has created something like this > because I am sure other developers have thought about it? Hopefully I will > contribute back to XMail in the near future with this. > > Ben -- William Denniss - will@: http://www.omegadelta.net - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
