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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164 Lotus Instant Messaging/Web Conferencing (Sametime): Building Sametime-Enabled Applications
7.1 The BuddyList service advantages
As we describe in the introduction, the BuddyList service is a wrapper above the
storage service, designed for more easily handling the loading and storage of the
user buddylist. A developer working with the API still has the capability to
manage the loading and storage of the buddylist using the storage service
directly, so you may ask yourself why do I need this service?
The demand for the BuddyList service came from the requirement of developers
wishing to use the same buddylist content that is used by the o