128 Lotus Instant Messaging/Web Conferencing (Sametime): Building Sametime-Enabled Applications
5.1 Overview of the Chat Logging SPI and DDA Toolkit
In 2001, IBM introduced the Sametime Chat Recording Service Provider
Interface (SPI), allowing developers to create Win32 DLL files to work in
conjunction with a Win32 service to capture transcripts of chats as the sessions
concluded. Corporate developers used the SPI to create custom versions of a
chat recorder facility, saving transcripts to disk, text files, relational, or Notes
databases as the company’s requirements dictated. Commercial developers
created a small number of products to do the same, with more configuration
options to serve a larger market.
With the release of Sametime 3, the ...