Re: Committing patch contributed for MIME message parser and serializer based on Apache mime4j [WSCOMMONS-387]

Oleg?

Thilina Gunarathne wrote:
> Hi All.
> Wonder why Oleg removed the patch, without even committing it to a 
> branch.. I did not even get a chance to look in to the new patch with 
> deferred building :(...
> 
> Current API and impl's were designed in a desperate manner to get MTOM & 
> SWA working, when we found that java mail does not work well for us. So 
> I'm sure there are many places where we can improve the architecture and 
> the API. I would like to volunteer and team up with Oleg to fix the 
> inflexibility and the API that people were reporting in this thread. 
> Hopefully we can eventually come up with an abstract API to support 
> different implementations and to plug in MIME4J.
> 
> For this I would like to understand the inflexibility and the concrete 
> use cases in a more detailed manner, so that we'll not just think of 
> MTOM & SWA when reorganising these things. I need support from all of 
> you guys for this matter.
> 
> thanks,
> Thilina
> 
> 
> --Thilina Gunarathne  - http://thilinag.blogspot.com


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