James as "simple" nntp server

[Alexander Schatten <al...@gmx.at>]

I am programming a tool that is working with nntp servers (extracting 
data...) and need a simple nntp server locally for testing purposes 
(dont want to hit live servers with unit tests...).

So I was thinking of Apache James. Now there are two issues:

(1) I do not need a mailserver; I figured I can disable the mailsever in 
the config file (hope this has no side effects to nntp...?)

(2) I do not find much documentation about the nntp part in James. And 
as it seems, it is not running by default.

telnet localhost 119

gives "no connection".


Now my question: is there somewhere an easy config/documentation to be 
found for setting up a simple local nntp server with a handfull of groups?



thanks a lot




Alex


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Re: James as "simple" nntp server

[Alexander Schatten <al...@gmx.at>]

Sorry to bother again; but I wonder: no one has any idea about James as 
pure nntp-test-server?


thank you very much.

Alexander Schatten wrote:
> I am programming a tool that is working with nntp servers (extracting 
> data...) and need a simple nntp server locally for testing purposes 
> (dont want to hit live servers with unit tests...).
> 
> So I was thinking of Apache James. Now there are two issues:
> 
> (1) I do not need a mailserver; I figured I can disable the mailsever in 
> the config file (hope this has no side effects to nntp...?)
> 
> (2) I do not find much documentation about the nntp part in James. And 
> as it seems, it is not running by default.
> 
> telnet localhost 119
> 
> gives "no connection".
> 
> 
> Now my question: is there somewhere an easy config/documentation to be 
> found for setting up a simple local nntp server with a handfull of groups?



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Re: James as "simple" nntp server

[Stefano Bagnara <ap...@bago.org>]

Alexander Schatten ha scritto:
> Sorry to bother again; but I wonder: no one has any idea about James as
> pure nntp-test-server?

Sorry Alexander, I think no one is using NNTP server in JAMES these
days. I'm on this lists since 2005 and rarely I read anything about it.
In fact I made many commit/work in JAMES Server since 2005 but nntp
server is one of the less active code modules.

What you may be interested in is that in current trunk we are
modularizing things and we also have an experimental spring deployment.

If you want to try to understand something I suggest you to look at the
code:
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/james/server/trunk/nntpserver-function/

As you can see it depends on many other core apis/libraries, but the
main block has this depedencies:

org.apache.james.socket.JamesConnectionManager
org.apache.avalon.cornerstone.services.sockets.SocketManager
org.apache.james.nntpserver.repository.NNTPRepository
org.apache.james.api.user.UsersRepository
org.apache.avalon.cornerstone.services.threads.ThreadManager
org.apache.james.api.dnsservice.DNSService"
org.apache.james.services.MailServer"

NNTPRepository is implemented by NNTPRepositoryImpl that only depends on
    org.apache.james.services.FileSystem that should be easy to mock.

JamesConnectionManager/SocketManager/ThreadManager are from
avalon-socket-library module infrastructure and is the common code we
have between socket based servers, you can simply use it as a library.

UsersRepository and MailServer are the 2 services you may need to
implement in order to do your tests.

If you also wants to "intercept" message reading/writing you can write
your own NNTPRepository interface.

I warn you that code is probably working but has no mantainers since years.

HTH,
Stefano

> thank you very much.
> 
> Alexander Schatten wrote:
>> I am programming a tool that is working with nntp servers (extracting
>> data...) and need a simple nntp server locally for testing purposes
>> (dont want to hit live servers with unit tests...).
>>
>> So I was thinking of Apache James. Now there are two issues:
>>
>> (1) I do not need a mailserver; I figured I can disable the mailsever
>> in the config file (hope this has no side effects to nntp...?)
>>
>> (2) I do not find much documentation about the nntp part in James. And
>> as it seems, it is not running by default.
>>
>> telnet localhost 119
>>
>> gives "no connection".
>>
>>
>> Now my question: is there somewhere an easy config/documentation to be
>> found for setting up a simple local nntp server with a handfull of
>> groups?
> 
> 
> 
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