MailMan integrated with JSP/Servlet integration

[michela rossi]

Andreas Kostyrka <andreas at kostyrka.org> wrote in message news:<mailman.43.1084640492.4157.python-list at python.org>...
> 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


Andreas,

Thanks - but I don't really understand the reply. Can you expand at all?
Thanks, Michela.