[Mailsomething-devl] Re: mailsomething project

[stig <st...@eu...>]

Hey Bogdan :-)

Here is a good initial task you can start with. I suggest u to work on this,
coz its a relatively selfintegrated task. Please respond if u will grap it
(work on it) or not.

The project uses the class MimeType from the jaf package.
http://java.sun.com/products/javabeans/glasgow/javadocs/index.html

It is the only class used in the jaf libary. I would like to replace this
with our own class, for several reasons - 1. I am not sure if license of jaf
conflicts with the gpl. 2. The implementation of mimetype in jaf throws
exception in some cases of badly formatted mimetypes, though, they are
understandable, and can/should be parsed and used in the app. 3. No need to
use a whole external libary for just one class.

You dont need to make the class exactly the same as the MimeType in jaf, but
the method signatures gives a good idea of what is needed. Actually, u dont
need to do the class all over if u can find some existing code (under gpl).

For a describtion of mimetypes -
ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc2045.txt
ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc2046.txt

Every mail has (or most) a mimetype (the contenttype header field), which
describes the content and is used to decide how to display the mail. This is
how it is used within the mailsomething project. The gui code uses it to
show a mail either as plain text, html, as a picture, with attachments, etc.
etc. You can try use an ide to find all references to the
java.activation.MimeType class and then u get an idea how its used.

I have myself started to use junit tests for the code I write. I will
suggest the mailsomething project does that too, anyway...  we can talk
about that when u have some progress with the class.... Or I can write some
junit tests for that specific class u can test with.

Hope u will find it interesting. Let me hear what u think.

Stig


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bogdan" <bn...@ya...>
To: "stig" <st...@eu...>
Cc: <mai...@sf...>
Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 9:20 PM
Subject: Re: mailsomething project


>
>
> Hello, Stig.
> It is a little about me:
> My name is Bogdan Strakhov, and I am engaged Java about 5 months.
> Last task above which I worked, is uploading of a file(s), which send to
server
> on POST-method.
> I'd like to participate in the project, for that what to study Java better
> and to make something necessary and working :)
> Work in any part of the project is interesting to me.
> There can be you could recommend to me, in what part it is necessary or
> probably my participation.
>
>  Bogdan                          mailto:bn...@ya...
>
>