Accessing Micro$oft Exchange from Java

[Neil Barnwell]

Hi Guys,

Does anyone know of any (good) examples of
accessing Exchange server information in Java?

Specifically I want to create a web app which replicates
the Outlook month calendar, but rather than showing
appointments, simply shows the names of people who
have appointments on each day. The user would
probably then click them as hyperlinks or something
to get more detailed information.

This seems to me to involve the following:

- Accessing Exchange from Java.
- Accessing a global contacts store (I only want
~40 employees out of possibly hundreds, here).
- Accessing the Appointments for those employees
for the time period selected.

Does anyone have any pointers?

Cheers,

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[Daniel Hagen]

Neil Barnwell wrote:
[...]

This seems to me to involve the following:

- Accessing Exchange from Java.
- Accessing a global contacts store (I only want
~40 employees out of possibly hundreds, here).
- Accessing the Appointments for those employees
for the time period selected.

Does anyone have any pointers?

The Exchange information store can be accessed via LDAP. Have a look at
the JNDI docs for detailed information on how to do this in Java.

A description of the Exchange directory schema can be found on MSDN.
There are also a lot of code examples for doing this using ADSI, they
shouldn't be difficult to port.

This works fine for contact information but I don't know wether you will
be able to query calendar information this way. You propably should ask
this question in the respective Exchange Newsgroup too.

Regards

Daniel