November 2003
Intermediate to advanced
496 pages
11h 59m
English
book
Lotus Instant Messaging/Web Conferencing (Sametime): Building Sametime Enabled Applications
by John Bergland, John Barrow, Jonas Covey, Washington Cabral, Carl Tyler, Yafit Sami, Rob Novak
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Chapter 3. Sametime Bots 51
As long as it is logged in, a bot is continually available to service requests, and
will respond as long as the Sametime server itself is available. In a multi-server
community, the bot is available to any user, regardless of which Sametime server
they are actually connected to. It is also worth noting that because a Sametime
Bot manifests itself as just another member of the community, bots are available
to mobile users with no extra programming effort. An end user can interact with a
bot using a cell phone or PDA in the same manner he would communicate with a
regular Sametime user.
3.2 Developing bots
The very nature ...