MailMan integrated with JSP/Servlet integration

[Andreas Kostyrka]

Am Sa, den 15.05.2004 schrieb michela rossi um 15:39:
> Hi,
> Wonder if anyone can help me. 
> 
> I have a client for whom we are building a website using J2SE & TOMCAT
> 4.1.7. (at clients request). The client also has an installation of
> MailMan that they would like us to use to validate registered users.
> 
> All well and good, but given that the bulk of the websites code will
> be written using Java, and MailMan is written in Python - this seems
> to represent a problem or two : e.g. how will the Java code
> interrogate the MailMan installation to find out whether a user has
> validated correctly? Is there any kind of Java interface that anyone
> knows about?
Well the authentication game is fairly easy: Just access an URL that
requires authentication.

This should work both ways: Java -> Mailman and Mailman -> Java :)

Andreas