[JAMES-1387] [gsoc2012] Prepare James for running in a clustered setup - distributed James

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Abandoned
• Affects Version/s: 3.0-beta3
• Fix Version/s: Trunk
• Component/s: James Core, MailStore & MailRepository
• Labels: gsoc2012 mentor mentoring
• Assignee: Ioan Eugen Stan
• Reporter: Ioan Eugen Stan
• Created: 01/Mar/12 11:43
• Updated: 08/Jun/20 18:44
• Resolved: 08/Jun/20 18:44

Description

I believe that with hbase mailbox implementation (and JPA) we can have many instances of James accessing the same mailstore, but there are some requirements.
I will add some tasks that are needed to fill this issue.

Difficulty: medium-> high.

Issue Links

• depends upon: MAILBOX-103 Design and implement Distributed UID generation
• relates to: MAILBOX-72 Requirements for a distributed mailbox implementation