ApacheCon NA 2010 Session

Commons Email and Exec

• Siegfried Goeschl
• Thu, 04 November 2010 10:00
• No Materials Available

You just wanted to send an email from within your application and got confused with BodyParts, MimeBodyParts, MimeMultiparts and friends of the Java Mail API?! If yes - have a look at commons-email to see how you can easily create text emails with attachments or HTML emails with embedded images in just a few lines of code. Using a simple "Runtime.exec()" in production code won't cut it and might break your application. Using commons-exec shields you from platform-specific exit codes, blocking error streams, run-away child processes, asynchronous process execution and cross-platform issues.