Re: [vtp-dev] Need library for Eclipse - Skype link on Linux

[Brent D Metz <bdmetz@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I'd like to note that Matthew Johnson
has generously allowed his DBus java bindings at the URL below to be licensed
under the terms of the EPL. It should greatly simplify adding linux support.
Thanks, Matthew!

http://www.matthew.ath.cx/projects/java/

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Brent D. Metz
Enterprise Voice Tools
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"Simple things should be simple, and complex things should be possible."
- Alan Kay

"Michael Greenawalt" <mgreenawalt@xxxxxxxxxx>
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02/01/2006 07:48 PM

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Subject	[vtp-dev] Need library for Eclipse - Skype link on Linux

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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