Java Telephony

[Joshua]

Hi,

I'm looking to develop an application to programatically phone people
and, maybe, leave a message. I've looked into the Java Telephony API
(http://java.sun.com/products/jtapi/jtapi-1.2/javax.telephony.Call.html
) which seems very outdated, however powerful. i was wondering if a)
there's an different/more efficient/easier way than the Java telephony
API and, if not, b) am I to understand thatt he JTAPI is purely a
specification? Does anyone know of a good (and free is a good thing,
too) implementation of it? How does one generally get a JTAPI program
working? They make mention of hardware configuration in some places
which worries me - what does that generally entail? If anybody has any
other strategies, please let me know.

I appreciate your help, thanks again,

Joshua

[NOBODY]

jtapi is only interfaces, so yes, a spec.

implementations are mostly for switches, pbx and so on.
they are very few, and expensive, or free and totally crappy.

This stuff is hard, man, trust me.
JDBC is for 8 year old kids compared to jtapi.
Programming a solid jtapi platform takes years, and hardware.
Don't expect it to be free.

Rudimentary partial spec implementation for point-to-point can probably
be found, but id under windoze, you better start looking for java-tapi
jni wrapping, or code some voice modem controls with javacomm api.

Sorry.

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[Eric Olander]

The group I work in has done this for Java, but not using JTAPI. We wrote a
softphone application for Java (running on Windows) supporting analog
(though a modem), ISDN and VoIP devices. For the analog and ISDN we wrote
JNI wrappers around the MS TAPI dlls, and for VoIP we wrote JNI around the
OpenH323 code. We had two developers working on this part - one on VoIP the
other on TAPI, took about 6 months to get a stable code base. Good Luck.

-Eric Olander
Lucent Technologies

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