Re: Error while sending email because of javax.activation

[Jean-Baptiste Onofré <jb...@nanthrax.net>]

Thanks Nicolas,

this is related to the changes we did for Java 9/11 support. We gonna
fix that for Karaf 4.2.2.

Regards
JB

On 25/10/2018 14:20, DUTERTRY Nicolas wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>  
> 
> It is not possible to send email in Karaf 4.2 with javax.mail API. When
> an email is sent, this exception is raised :
> 
>  
> 
> javax.mail.MessagingException: IOException while sending message;
> 
>   nested exception is:
> 
>      javax.activation.UnsupportedDataTypeException: no object DCH for
> MIME type multipart/mixed;
> 
>  
> 
> I’ve found that it is because the Activation Framework
> (javax.activation) is not OSGI compliant. In the previous Karaf version
> (4.1) a servicemix implementation of the Activation Framework was
> included but it is not the case anymore.
> 
>  
> 
> The solution to have a working Activation Framework is to remove
> javax.activation references in jre.properties and to install the bundle
> org.apache.servicemix.specs/org.apache.servicemix.specs.activation-api-1.1/2.9.0.
> 
>  
> 
> For the future Karaf 4.2.2 can you please :
> 
> -          Remove javax.activation from jre.properties
> 
> -          Remove activation-1.1.1.jar from directory lib/boot
> 
> -          Let the user install
> org.apache.servicemix.specs/org.apache.servicemix.specs.activation-api-1.1/2.9.0
> if needed
> 
>  
> 
> Regards,
> 
> --
> 
> Nicolas Dutertry
> 
> Sopra HR Software - http://www.soprahr.com/
>