Apache ESME > Index > Getting started > Integration and interfaces
Added by Daniel Koller, last edited by Daniel Koller on Apr 06, 2009  (view change)

ESME can play a part in the IT of your organization, especially to connect processes with the people executing them. Most of the scenarios are based on available APIs in the ESME software.

Name of the API Status Comments more details at...
ESME REST-like API Out-of-the-box available The current API does not completely fulfill the requirements of RESTful APIs. Compliance with the REST standard is however on the tasklist of the team. Link to description
Twitter-like API Out-of-the-box available Compliance with the Twitter-API serves to enable usage of Twitter clients with an ESME instance. 1 Link to documentation, Link to SVN

Based on the APIs mentioned above, the following clients/programming libraries are available: 2

Programming language or environment Status More details at...
ABAP Client Working source code available Generic Web-Dynpro ABAP Client source code, ABAP Send message source code, ABAP Object Watch
Adobe AIR client Out-of-the-box available Installation guide
Apache ANT action JAR file available Link to blog entry
Java Library JAR file available Link to blog entry
JavaScript Client Example script available Link to code.google.com Link to blog entry
PLSQL Client Example script available Link to code.google.com
SAP NetWeaver Logger Client Example script available Link to blog entry
VBA Client Example script available Link to blog entry

Find below a list of different integration options.

Integration/interface with... Use case Current maturity level Comments more Details at...
email systems Receiving emails Additonal software needed There is a plugin available for the open source mail server James to forward emails to ESME. Connecting with other mailservers involves development of a small piece of software, which call the ESME APIs. Link to docs.google.com
email systems Sending emails Out-of-the-box available ESME sends emails based on user defined Actions. ESME relies for sending eMails on the JavaMail API and its required settings. Sending emails from ESME
MS Sharepoint Retrieving ESME conversations Internal testcase (needs to be documented)  
Yahoo Pipes Information retrieval from other microblogging tools Working configuration document available Link to blog entry http://www.esjewett.com/blog/twitter-pipes-esme]

Footnotes
Reference Notes
1 Current positioning is that ESME will have in future both a twitter-like and an own API.
2 All entries are based on the REST-like API, if not stated otherwise.