Understanding Java Telephony (Paperback)

by Edwin Margulies (Author)

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This book covers the Java Telephony API (JTAPI), the JTAPI Call Model, JAVA Architecture, Programming Examples and SunXTL Teleservices Architecture. Some of the most impressive computing platforms available are based on Sun. Now, with help from JavaSoft, design teams from IBM, Intel, Lucent, Nortel and Novell have created the Java Telephony API (JTAPI). It's the standard telephony application programming interface for computer telephone applications under Java. JTAPI provides the definition for a set of reusable telephone call control objects. With it, you get application portability across platforms and implementations. Read this book to learn how JAPI offers telephony interface extension packages to accommodate custom, yet portable apps. Learn how JTAPI interfaces will soon hook to SunXTL, Microsoft and Intel TAPI, Novell and Lucent TSAPI and IBM Call Path. Use JTAPI to design: killer apps for power users and road warriors; call center solutions; unified messaging; voice-enabled Web pages and Internet Telephony. There is an UnPBX in your future, and this book tells how it can start saving you money and time now. You may buy one as a business phone system. Or you may buy one as an ACD - automatic call distributor. Or you may buy it to handle your intra-company and Internet e-mails. Or you may use it to run your very own www.YourCompany.com Web site. Or you may buy it to handle your inbound and outbound faxes. Or you may buy it to automate your customers' requests for information - like their bank balances, order status, appointment schedule. Or you may buy it to allow your people to see their e-mails, voice mails and faxes on a single screen on their desk. Or, you may use it to send your voice and fax calls over the Internet or your private data network. Or, you may use it for all or some of the above. An UnPBX is a remarkable device. It will revolutionize the way we handle all forms of office communications. All forms. "We are total believers in the concept of Windows NT-based UnPBXs. We fully expect that over time, smaller phone systems will be replaced by UnPBXs."- Bill Gates, Microsoft

Product Details

• Paperback: 873 pages
• Publisher: Cmp Books; 1 edition (February 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1578200032
• ISBN-13: 978-1578200030
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 2.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,682,164 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A direct copy of the JTAPI web site. Better to go there free, April 8, 1999

By A Customer

This book does nothing more than copy the entire set of JTAPI documents (which are freely available) from the Sun web site. Worse, they are presented in a sloppy and unformatted manner. You are better off to simply go to the Sun site & download the docs or look to other sources than to buy this book. If however you do not have access to the web, then a hard copy of the docs may prove useful.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Hard Copy Reference of Original JTAPI Spec, April 15, 2003

By	Kenneth Mazolli (Red Bank, NJ) - See all my reviews

I was one of the lucky ones that Sun Microsystems gave away this book to at a Computer Telephony trade show about 5 years ago. They gave away hundreds as part of a promotion/launch of JTAPI. In fact, according to Sun, they commissioned the writing of this book with the publisher as a companion to the JTAPI spec which is on their web site. Of course, the JTAPI spec is free, but the book has been a nice reference. It also has a few chapters in it on Sun partners and what they do, and this is NOT on the web site. There's also a useful glossary.