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Google Summer of Code 2011 Apache Software Foundation

Design and implement a distributed mailbox using Hadoop

by ieugen for Apache Software Foundation

The mailbox subproject (http://james.apache.org/mailbox/) supports maildir, SQL database (via JPA) and Java Content Repository (JCR) as technology for mail storage. The goal for this project is to implement mailbox storage as a distributed system on top of Hadoop HDFS using James mailbox API.