[Yanel-dev] SendMail utility class

[Michael Wechner]

Guillaume Déflache wrote:
> Michael Wechner wrote:
>> Hi
>
> Hi!
>
>
>> I have noticed that the class
>>
>> src/java/org/wyona/yanel/impl/resources/contactform/SendMail.java
>>
>> is being used within the forget-password resource type and the 
>> SendMail class seems to me very generic
>
> Indeed.
>
>
>> and hence it might make sense to move into
>> some more common lib, e.g. the wyona-commons lib.
>>
>> WDYT?
>
> I thought about that when I wanted to reuse this piece of code, and 
> decided against adding it to wyona-commons because it would basically 
> transitively add a dependency to Javamail and JAF to all Wyona 
> components that use wyona-commons, e.g. Yarep, Wyona-Security, Yanel, 
> etc.
>
> IMHO the "contact-form" resource-type is simple enough that it can be 
> considered a mail library in itself: it would be a shame not to 
> leverage resource-types to do dependency management each time we can 
> to avoid a proliferation of plain-old-Java commons libraries. Of 
> course the drawback that the code is then tied to Yanel (maybe only 
> part of its API e.g. yanel-core if we are careful).
>
>
> But maybe instead we could define a wyona-commons-mail "sub-library" 
> as suggested for XML in 
> http://svn.wyona.com/repos/public/commons/trunk/build.xml (look for 
> "wyona-commons-xml")?
> Then all commons sub-libraries could share a central building 
> infrastructure but once compiled still live independently ever after! ;)

sounds good.

Thanks

Michi
>
>
> Cheers,
>    Guillaume