Eclipse Project for JavaMail

Tuesday, January 30, 2018 - 07:38 by Dmitry Kornilov

Basics

This proposal is in the Project Proposal Phase (as defined in the Eclipse Development Process) and is written to declare its intent and scope. We solicit additional participation and input from the community. Please login and add your feedback in the comments section.

Project

Jakarta Mail

Parent Project

Eclipse EE4J

Proposal State

Created

Background

This project is created as part of the process of transitioning Oracle Java EE 8 and GlassFish technologies to the Eclipse Foundation as described in The Eclipse Enterprise for Java Project Top Level Project Charter (https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/ee4j/charter).

Scope

Eclipse Project for JavaMail provides the API, reference implamentation and TCK for JavaMail, starting from the specification defined by JSR-919.

Description

The JavaMail API provides a platform-independent and protocol-independent framework to build mail and messaging applications. The JavaMail API is available as an optional package for use with the Java SE platform and is also included in the Java EE platform.

Licenses

Eclipse Public License 2.0

一 (Secondary) GNU General Public License, version 2 with the GNU Classpath Exception

Why Here?

The top level EE4J project was created consistent with the direction described in The Eclipse Enterprise for Java Project Top Level Project Charter (https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/ee4j/charter). This project is created under the top level EE4J project as one of Oracle Java EE 8 and GlassFish technologies being transitioned to the Eclipse Foundation.

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