[Question] Why two artifacts angus-mail and jakarta.mail?

[space88man]

Both jakarta.mail and angus-mail are module-info.java-only that refer to other the packages. The two module-info files look very similar.

Could you clarify the relationship between the two artifacts?

Confusion from dependencies in the wild:

• Spring mail integration refers to jakarta.mail
• Apache CXF refers to angus-mail

Which is the "correct" one to use?

• compile with jakarta.mail-api:2.1.1 and package with angus-mail (Apache CXF 4.0+ )
• compile and package with jakarta.mail (Spring 6.0+, Spring Boot 3.0+ )

[lukasj]

depends on the use-case and preferences and the web already lists and describes all options.

In short: jakarta.mail:jakarta.mail-api + org.eclipse.angus:angus-mail = org.eclipse.angus:jakarta.mail