XMLVirtualUserTable, JDBCVirtualUserTable and JDBCAlias mailets deprecated

[Eric Charles <er...@apache.org>]

Hi,

I'm trying to find my way in james user mngt and came to the conclusion 
that mappings are now "buit-in" via the org.apache.james.impl.vut. classes.
Although, there are still mailets in trunk that achieve some mapping 
functions. They are still mentioned of these mailets in spoolmanager.xml

<!-- This mailet redirects mail for the user 'postmaster' at any local 
domain to -->
<!-- the postmaster address specified for the server. The postmaster 
address -->
<!-- is required by rfc822. Do not remove this mailet unless you are 
meeting -->
<!-- this requirement through other means (e.g. a 
XML/JDBCVirtualUserTable mailet) -->
<mailet match="All" class="PostmasterAlias"/>

This kind of mailets may be considered as giving flexibility is the 
whole processing, but I sometimes feel that they are a left-over 
implementations of what existed before .vut. package. And yes, sometimes 
"more is less"...
The JDBC* classes also ask much maintenance and the future for 
relational database access should be JPA (or any other mapping 
framework, but not native SQL via JDBC).

So should we mark XMLVirtualUserTable, JDBCVirtualUserTable and 
JDBCAlias as deprecated ?

Tks,

Eric


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