Jose Alberto Fernandez wrote:
 
>
>Ok, why is it that we want to do this? What is it that we are trying to
>solve?
>
>
Since I was the one who initially started the conversion about
port-specific chains let me explain what it is I want to do.

I have a POP3Handler which implements a POP3 server. I want to configure
this using Spring. Thanks to the Spring integration code which now is in
Mina I can do that.

Then we wanted to support SSL connections. Ideally the same POP3Handler
could be used and depending on the port an SSLFilter will be applied or
not. Since I'm still using Spring it would be very nice if I could
configure this without having to add any additional code to POP3Handler.
This isn't possible today since there are no port-specific filter chains
in Mina at the moment.

My current workaround involves code in POP3Handler which checks the
local address of a new connection in sessionCreated and if it is 995
(the POP3S port) an SSLFilter instance will be added to the session's
filter chain. I would like to do this in my Spring context XML file
without my POP3Handler having to know about it. It will reduce
complexity and POP3Handler could concentrate on what it is supposed to
do without having to worry about configuration. The workaround kind of
defeats one of the motivations behind using the DI-pattern in the first
place.

/Niklas

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