| [vtp-dev] Need library for Eclipse - Skype link on Linux |
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Milestone 2 of the VTP includes the Tellme Browser, which
launches voice applications on Tellme Studio via the Skype phone client. Today
we have only a Windows implementation. The only part of the plugin that is OS-dependent is the
interface to the Skype client API from the Java environment. This is
accomplished by creating a dynamic linkable library for the OS. In Windows,
this is a .dll file. The Java-Skype interface involves a Java class that provides
methods to initialize, connect, send a message, and destroy the connection. The
Java class in turn calls on native methods (using JNI) which are embodied in a
platform-specific library. The platform-specific library is often written in C
or C++, and the Java SDK provides the proper include files for C/C++ to define
the JNI constructs. The Windows-specific library is written in C++. Skype has clients for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. We would
like to have versions of the Java-Skype interface for all the platforms. To
make the Java-Skype interface work on those platforms requires only that a
version of the platform-specific library be written for each platform. I have a volunteer developer working on the Mac OS X version
right now. But there is no one currently signed up for the Linux version.
Information about the Skype API implementation on Linux can
be found here: http://share.skype.com/developer_zone/documentation/api_reference/#Linux A specification for the library interfaces is attached. n Mike PS: I will be out of the country for the next 3 weeks, but
Brent has a good idea of what is involved, too, and may be able to answer
questions. |
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Specifications for SkDialer library.doc
Description: Specifications for SkDialer library.doc