
154 IBM Workplace Managed Client 2.6 on Linux
Table 5-1 Connection properties
5.9 Live names and instant messaging integration
In this section, we discuss live names and instant messaging integration.
Live name support
Until now, we have, for the most part, used only those parts of the platform that
belong to Eclipse. In this section, we use the Workplace APIs themselves by
incorporating collaborative functionality into Task Manager.
It is desirable to associate a contact name with each task. If we do this, then why
not make the contact name label active? It will indicate whether the user is
currently online and, if so, allow us to initiate a chat ...