com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport
843830Oct 30 2002 — edited Oct 31 2002I have a question concerning this class.
If you look at the JavaMail API seperatly it shows some com.sun.mail classes and gives a description of what they do.
If you look at JavaMail through the J2EE documentation, it doesn't mention this class at all.
My question is since it isn't exposed in the J2EE documentation is this a class that's safe to extend or should it be considered as something that's volatile and should never change.
Generally I believe that I should never directly use a class that isn't prefixed with java or javax that comes as part of a Java API, but since it is documented and exposed in the JavaMail API (http://java.sun.com/products/javamail/1.3/docs/javadocs/) is it ok to subclass it in this case to provide some additional functionality?