[jboss-dev-forums] [Design of JBoss ESB] - Re: Embedded FTP Server and FTP Clients

[weston.price@jboss.com]

anonymous wrote : 
  | Weston, people have to pay for the LIbrados stuff, don't they? It wouldn't be very hard at all to write our own FTP/SMTP/POP/IMap inbound/outbound connectors. 
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That's why I mentioned that Librados is a semi partner. I believe we have some type of relationship with them that might allow us to deploy their stuff in some version or another. At the very least, I am sure something could be worked out with them for ESB.

The question is never about the difficulty, it's about doing the bare amount of research to determine whether or not we can get something like this off the shelf. 

Let's be realistic what we do is not rocket science, though we may like to think so. Like the ' 1000 monkey's writing Shakespeare' thing, throw enough clowns in front of a terminal, give them enough time and they will eventually write EJB3...oh wait...nevermind :-)

IMO we have a hard core case of NIH at JBoss. It permeates most projects and ends up costing us more than we ultimately realize until it's too late (you can insert one of 10 technologies we wrote from scatch in AS in this category). 

Sure, I could sit down and write my own concurrency abstractions (ThreadPool, Semaphore etc) but why not just use what's in the VM? Similarly, we could sit down and write a bunch of adapters to handle FTP, SMTP, POP. but if we can possibly get a tested piece of code off the shelf, it may be beneficial to look into it.

BTW we already have POP/IMAP via the Mail adapter :-)






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