Friday November 10, 2006
Instant Messages from the system I had a "now thats cool" moment yesterday afternoon just as I was about to get on a phone call.
The meeting I was dialing into was in my calendar, which is hosted on the Sun Calendar server, and I access it either using https as a web page or via the Lightning plugin for Thunderbird using the wcap protocol.
I also have "corporate" instant messaging setup to talk to the Sun Messaging Server, as one of my GAIM accounts (using the Jabber protocol).
Nothing special there, right ? Well the fact that I got an IM from the Calendar server which was a ics format calendar entry for the appointment was really cool.
Now it was a bit "raw" since it was just the ics format data but I'm sure if I can find the time to learn how to implement a GAIM plugin it could be done very nicely.
What I though was very cool about this was it shows a wonderful use of standards based interfaces to solve the calendar notification problem without requiring a native OS calendar application to be running.
I'm very impressed that our software could do that and even more impressed that it was deployed that way. I happend to be connected to Sun's internal network at the time (over VPN) but this would have worked even if I wasn't since both Calendar and IM are now Edge services.
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Posted by Dave Miner on November 10, 2006 at 10:42 PM GMT #