® Developing Plugins for SameTime Connect 7.5 Jian Min JIANG Lotus ISV Technical Enablement China Software Development Lab

2 UI Extensions: Main Window “Mini Apps” Status bar Telephony Action Bar Branding Area Live Names Tools Menu

3 UI Extensions: Chat Window Tools Menu Telephony Branding Area Action Bar Status bar Send area actions

4 More examples of UI extensions  Extend menus and toolbars in other windows (e.g., n-way chat participant list)  Extend Sametime’s system tray menu choices, as shown to right (“BluePages”)  Extend Preferences UI using standard Eclipse API  Add branding areas to login dialog, Contact List, and chat window  Add actions to a contact’s pop-up menu  Reuse business card BluePages and Voice Suite are internal IBM plug-ins

5 Extending Sametime Connect - Steps 1.Have an idea? 2.Approach 1: Choose the appropriate UI extension 3.Approach 2: Choose the appropriate event override 4.Alternatives to Extending Sametime Connect 5.Code 6.Test 7.Deploy

6 Extending Sametime Connect - Approaches Approach 1: Choose the appropriate UI extension  Actions: Main menu, person/group context menu, toolbars  Areas: Mini app, chat area, n-way list area, pop-up add-on  Information extension: Person status, n-way list columns Approach 2: Choose the appropriate event override  Transform chat messages (e.g., translation or keyword substitution)  React to location changes, coordinate with other applications  Automated responses (e.g., DND in presentation mode) These approaches can be combined as needed.

7 Extending Sametime Connect - Alternatives  Don’t extend the client  Convenience can turn to clutter  Extend your own application instead  Extend your web application using Sametime Links Toolkit*  Extend your Java application using Sametime Java Toolkit*  Extend your RCP application using Livenames  Extend your Notes 8 application  Other options are on the horizon  Reuse of Sametime Connect views in Expeditor** * ST Links is unchanged; ST Java TK AWT-based UI elements are deprecated ** You can extend Sametime Connect 7.5’s UI; future versions will allow reuse of its views in your rich client application.

8 Extending Sametime Connect – UI Elements viewActions ext. point* actionSet ext. point* popupMenus ext. point* ( GroupSelection ) MyBusinessCard ( Person ) popupMenus ext. point* ( PersonSection ) miniApp ext. point ( AbstractMiniApp ) Group, Person (from System tray) (from n-way chat) nWayListExtention ext. point Person chatAction ext. point (from chat window) * Standard Eclipse UI extension points

9 Extending Sametime Connect – Code, Test, Deploy  Code  Familiar to Eclipse developers (plug-ins, SWT, JFace)  Eclipse IDE wizards simplify code and debug  Test  Launch directly from Eclipse IDE or connect to running client  Expeditor Toolkit automates creation of Launch configuration, includes properly configured J9 runtime environment  Development-time Deployment  Run directly from Eclipse’s PDE (Plug-in Development Environment), or  Copy to installation’s plugins directory and restart with -clean option  Production Deployment  When complete, create update site; optionally require installation at client startup  Delivery is either via “pull” from users with Update Manager, or “push” from server from enterprise-wide update site

10 Sample plug-in: Branding  Extension Point  com.ibm.collaboration.realtime.ui.stbranding  Options  Image  URL  Eclipse Widget  Any controls or combinations, but the size is limited  Extend STBrandingArea  Implementation of createControl public Control createControl(Composite parent) { ……. }

11 SameTime Connect Client Customization: Branding

12 Login Window <extension point="com.ibm.collaboration.realtime.ui.stbranding"> <stbranding id="com.ibm.collaboration.realtime.sample.branding.login" name="login dialog branding" targetView="com.ibm.collaboration.realtime.login">

13 SameTime Connect Client Customization : Branding

14 Chat Window <extension point="com.ibm.collaboration.realtime.ui.stbranding"> <stbranding height="64" width="64" id="com.ibm.collaboration.realtime.sample.branding.chat" name="chat window branding" targetView="com.ibm.collaboration.realtime.chatwindow" valign="top">

15 Contact List <extension point="com.ibm.collaboration.realtime.ui.stbranding"> <stbranding height="128" id="com.ibm.collaboration.realtime.sample.branding.imhub" name="contact list branding" targetView="com.ibm.collaboration.realtime.imhub" valign="bottom">

16 SameTime Connect Client Customization: Splash plugins\com.ibm.collaboration.realtime.application_2.0.0.jar splash.bmp configuration\org.eclipse.osgi\splash.bmp