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From reading this blog post, it appears that you have successfully attached the RESTEasy framework to the Apache Commons Email framework with one POJO. Uh, congratulations?

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There are no rules stating that a business has to run on complicated software that does a thousand things.

You're right, but for a successful business, you need to provide a service that would normally take more than half a day of development time, or have a wider breadth of functionality than your competitors (Mailchimp, Bluehornet), or -- worst case scenario -- compete on price. This appears to do none of those three.

Half a day of development costs at least a few hundred dollars in the US, so I don't see why a business can't make money by saving you that time.

And some argue that there are other ways to compete than on features and price:

http://gettingreal.37signals.com/ch02_Build_Less.php

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