Hi Bill,
Bill Shannon wrote:
> Fabian Ritzmann wrote:
>
>> On 22. Aug 2008, at 11:01, V B Kumar Jayanti wrote:
>>
>>> Fabian Ritzmann wrote:
>>>
>>>> I can try and chase down what piece(s) of Metro exactly is
>>>> depending on com.sun.mail.util if that helps?
>>>>
>>> XWSS uses it :
>>> ./com/sun/xml/wss/impl/c14n/TextPlainCanonicalizer.java:import
>>> com.sun.mail.util.CRLFOutputStream;
>>>
>>> May be we can internalize this class within XWSS to avoid the
>>> dependency.
>>
>>
>> I see that XWSS has several dependencies on javax.mail as well. While
>> getting rid of a dependency on an internal class is a good thing, we
>> would still depend on the mail bundle. I think from the Metro point
>> of view, the benefits of removing the dependency on this one package
>> are negligible.
>
>
> Just to be clear, none of the classes in com.sun.mail.util were
> *intended* for public use. The intent was that they were for use
> by the JavaMail implementation only. While most of them are unlikely
> to change incompatibly, some of them do. Depending on CRLFOutputStream
> is probably relatively safe, but if you want to be really clean you
> should clone the source code into your own package.
>
> Note that this JavaMail FAQ entry
> http://java.sun.com/products/javamail/FAQ.html#repres
> provides the source code to CRLFOutputStream with the intent that people
> who need it should copy it. (Yes, it needs an updated license.)
>
We will make a clone of this in our code. Is it sufficient if we put
GlassFish License on it ?.
regards,
kumar