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Java Enterprise Best Practices
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Java Enterprise Best Practices

by O'Reilly Java Authors
December 2002
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
288 pages
9h 46m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Chapter 10. JavaMail Best Practices

William Crawford

JavaMail is the Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) API that deals with Internet messaging services. While it is normally associated with Internet email, it was designed as a protocol-independent approach to electronic messaging, allowing support for a wide variety of point-to-point message transport mechanisms. JavaMail service providers divide the messaging world into stores, which hold incoming messages, and transports, which launch messages toward a destination. Message objects are used to represent individual emails, and a Session object is used to tie message stores, transports, and messages together. The general capability set of Internet email provides the least common denominator functionality.

The standard JavaMail implementation from Sun provides for POP3 and IMAP message stores, and for SMTP message transport. All three of these protocols support Internet email. An experimental NNTP client is also available from Sun, and various third parties provide support for other messaging systems.[38] The API is currently at Version 1.2; 1.3 should be finalized and released by the time you read this.

I assume you have some general familiarity with the basic concepts of the JavaMail API. If you’ve never programmed with JavaMail, this chapter can be seen as the sequel to Chapter 12 of Java Enterprise in a Nutshell, Second Edition by myself, Jim Farley, and David Flanagan (O’Reilly).

In this chapter I’ll cover strategies for using ...

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