Robertson, Jeff wrote:
>
> Isn't javamail required to be provided by a JEE server? That could be
> a reason to use it instead of something you'd always have to bundle
> with the app.
>
JavaMail is indeed required to be available for a J2EE (older) or Java
EE (newer) app server.
>
> Of course that only helps people deploying in a full blown server.
>
That's only true for an out-of-the-box deployment of something like
Tomcat or Jetty.
Every servlet container I'm aware of provides a mechanism for you to add
JAR files to the set of libraries that are made available to *all*
webapps that are deployed on that container. For example, on Tomcat
4.x/5.x, just put javamail.jar and jaf.jar into
"$TOMCAT_HOME/common/lib". On Tomcat 6.x, use "$TOMCAT_HOME/lib"
instead. You'll find some similar capability for all the other
containers too.
Craig