Chapter 20. Managing Email in Servlets and JSPs
Introduction
This chapter describes how to manage email in your servlets using the JavaMail and JavaBeans Activation Framework (JAF) APIs. JavaMail provides Java classes for dealing with most aspects of creating, sending, and accessing email. The JAF is a separate API for handling the datatypes and Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension (MIME) types you may encounter when generating email, such as the many different kinds of file attachments. Both of these APIs are a part of the Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) platform.
JavaMail models an email system with classes that
represent
mail
sessions (the javax.mail.Session
class),
message
stores (the javax.mail.Store
class), folders (the javax.mail.Folder
class,
such as the INBOX folder), email
messages (javax.mail.Message),
and email addresses (the javax.mail.internet.InternetAddress
class)
.
For example, an email message is similar
to a JavaBean, with setter methods to
build the various message components
(e.g., setFrom(
), setRecipients(
), setSubject( ),
etc.).
The following recipes show how to manage basic email messaging using a single servlet, as well as methods for separating the responsibility for emailing and handling HTTP requests into JavaBeans and servlets.
20.1. Placing the Email-Related Classes on your Classpath
Problem
You
want to use the javax.mail
and related Java packages
to handle email in a
servlet.
Solution
Download the ZIP files containing the mail.jar and activation.jar ...
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