This IBM Redbooks publication provides a best practice framework for an enterprise-scale deployment of Sametime 7.5. It covers a range of business collaboration requirements that might typically be found within many large enterprises with geographically dispersed user communities and diverse business requirements for real-time collaboration. Specifically, we discuss how to plan, install and configure a Sametime 7.5 infrastructure that will scale to meet the needs of a large, globally distributed enterprise. We approach the installation and configuration of Sametime in deployment phases, beginning with implementing the community services (chat functionality) and setting up load balancing. We next implement the online meeting services. Building upon this infrastructure, we then discuss how to integrate Sametime functionality with other IBM/Lotus products, including Microsoft Office. Finally, we complete the environment by discussing aspects of security, administration, and recommended maintenance. Other topics covered in the book include a discussion of the Enterprise Meeting Server and the Sametime Gateway.

With the release of IBM Lotus Sametime Connect 7.5, IBM provides an application platform upon which enhancements and application plug-ins can be built to best meet your organization's needs. Sametime Connect 7.5 is the first release of new instant messaging technology built on the Eclipse-based IBM WebSphere Everyplace Deployment platform. This new release leverages the Eclipse plug-in framework to provide developers with extensibility features that go far beyond those available in previous releases. Lotus Sametime Connect 7.5 offers more than simple instant messaging and presence features. Because it is built on Eclipse, a variety of plug-ins that expand the functionality of Lotus Sametime Connect are shipped with the product, and third parties can build additional plug-ins. The objective of this IBM Redbook is to show you how to develop Eclipse based plug-ins to customize and personalize the real-time, collaborative capabilities of Sametime within your organization. The book serves as a thorough guide on how to build plug-ins, beginning with how to install the Eclipse development environment, and then leading the reader through numerous examples ranging from a basic introduction on branding your Sametime environment, to showing how to integrate with a back-end system, retrieve information, and then manipulate the data presentation within the context of a Sametime window. For each example, we provide the audience with a step-by-step guide on how to build the plug-in. Finally, this capability for custom develop

This IBM Redbook discusses how to install, configure, and integrate Release 6.5.1 of IBM Lotus Domino and the Extended Products. Release 6.5.1 of Lotus Domino and the Extended Products represents a significant change in the way Lotus delivers software for customers. Each product in the 6.5.1 family is developed, tested, and supported to run with the other Release 6.5.1 products. For example, IBM Lotus Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing (formerly called Sametime) 6.5.1 and Lotus Team Workplace (formerly called QuickPlace) 6.5.1 will run on Domino 6.5.1. Customers will no longer need to spend time wondering (and testing) which version of which product works with which version of Domino. This translates to faster time to value for customers by enabling them to upgrade more frequently and more easily. Although Lotus Domino 6.5.1 and the Extended Products are now developed and delivered to run together on the same release, it is necessary to perform separate configuration steps within each of the components to achieve a highly integrated collaborative environment with presence awareness throughout. This book explains how to integrate and configure the IBM Lotus Domino 6.5.1 Extended Products in order to more effectively leverage each product's collaborative capabilities. We address the concept of "integration" from several different perspectives: - How to build a Domino-based collaborative environment using exclusively Release 6.5.1 of Domino and the Extended Products - How to upgrade an existing Domino-based co

Portals provide a personalized single point of access to applications, content, and processes through a Web interface. Secure portal solutions are needed to address common security challenges such as authentication, authorization, and single sign-on. This IBM Redbook and sample code will provide IT architects, developers, IT specialists, and administrators with the critical knowledge to design, develop, deploy, and manage a secure portal solution using IBM Tivoli Access Manager V5.1.0.2 and IBM WebSphere Portal V5.0.2.1. Part 1, "Introduction to secure portal solutions", introduces key concepts and provides an in-depth look at the secure portal solution architecture, topology selection, design, and integration guidelines. Part 2, "ITSO working example secure portal solution", describes how to implement an end-to-end secure portal solution. This part includes a business scenario, requirements, design, implementation of the runtime and development environments, application development and deployment, and administration of the secure portal solution.

The Sametime 3.0 Community Server Toolkit is a collection of Java components for building applications that affect the functionality and services provided by a Sametime server itself. This server toolkit is intended to be used alongside the various Sametime client toolkits (such as Java, C++, and COM), to build robust and creative e-business applications leveraging the Lotus Sametime technology. In this IBM Redbook, we describe the Community Server toolkit's architecture, and introduce the concepts behind developing server-based Sametime applications. The second part of this book focuses on providing more advanced sample applications to demonstrate the key capabilities of this toolkit. Many of these samples can then beused as building blocks for your own applications. This book is intended for Java developers who have experience using the Sametime Java client toolkit, and want to use the Sametime Community Server toolkit to enhance application logic on the server side. Those not already familiar with the Lotus Sametime architecture itself, or the Sametime client toolkits, should first read the Redbook "Working with the Sametime Client Toolkits," SG24-6666. All of the samples in the book are available in source format from the IBM Redbooks Web site.

This IBM Redbook is for developers and architects who want to utilize Sametime functionality in applications based on Java, C++, COM, or HTML and JavaScript. We explore capabilities offered by the different Sametime client toolkits, which you can use to add functionality to existing applications and to create powerful new applications that enable real-time collaboration. We discuss event-based programming, Sametime services, and the Sametime Place architecture. As part of our discussion about the Java toolkit, we provide an online bidding application sample that utilizes the Sametime Places architecture, and a sample to customize the chat window supplied by the toolkit. Next we describe the Sametime C++ Toolkit, and build a full-blown Sametime Connect client in C++. We also discuss considerations for developing Win32 programs in C++. Finally, we describe the newest additions to the Sametime client toolkits: the Sametime COM Toolkit and the Sametime Links Toolkit. We develop a BuddyList application in Visual Basic, and discuss how easily the Sametime Links Toolkit can add Sametime functionality to Web pages without requiring more than basic skills in HTML and JavaScript. Sametime portlets for WebSphere Portal Server are included in an appendix. Most of the samples in this redbook are available in source format from the IBM Redbooks Web site. This book is based on the Sametime 3.0 client toolkit.

Lotus Sametime is real-time collaboration software. It offers online awareness, instant messaging, application sharing, and virtual meetings all in one simple tool. Lotus Sametime helps organizations to be more responsive and more efficient by allowing employees, customers, partners, and suppliers to easily interact with one another in real-time. Real-time collaboration is a natural extension to e-mail. It's not just about chat; it's about using the Web to improve customer service, reduce travel costs, and create communities among employees, customers, partners, and suppliers. The IBM eServer iSeries server is an ideal platform for Sametime collaboration -- with an easy-to-manage infrastructure and low total cost of ownership. It shields the typical business user from worries about technical issues. The unique integrated architecture of iSeries delivers proven reliability, high availability, and powerful single-footprint scalability to customers, so they can focus on their business rather than technology. This IBM Redbook targets systems administrators who plan to implement Sametime in their organization. It provides tips and techniques for successfully deploying and administering Sametime on a Domino for iSeries server.

iNotes Web Access is a next-generation Web client that allows you to utilize the most popular Domino functionality with a Web browser. You can work on your mail, use your calendar for personal and group scheduling, and do some advanced task management. In addition, you have access to your contact information and a journal-like notebook. iNotes Web Access also has a customizable Welcome page. This IBM Redbook offers you information on how to best install, deploy, and configure iNotes Web Access for your environment. It describes how to make your installation secure, keeping unwanted visitors outside of your iNotes Web Access installation yet allowing your users to access their mail files from outside the corporate firewall. If your organization uses Notes clients to access mail and other services of Domino, you will still find iNotes Web Access useful. A scenario where these clients coexist is explained, and upgrading to such an environment is described in detail. All the functionality of iNotes Web Access is available for you online as well as offline. How to enable offline access to iNotes Web Access with Domino Off-Line Services is presented. This redbook gives you details for capacity planning so you can size your environment correctly and describes how to get the best performance out of your servers. It also gives you information on how to integrate Lotus Sametime into your iNotes Web Access environment. We describe the architecture of iNotes Web Access and, finally, offer some examples of how to make mo

This IBM Redbook illustrates how Lotus Sametime and Lotus QuickPlace can be combined with IBM WebSphere Commerce Suite to provide collaborative commerce solutions. After a general introduction to collaborative commerce, we tale the reader step-by-step through an application we implemented for this redbook. We designed this application to illustrate a wide variety of topics to consider when combining these products to create a collaborative commerce solution. Among the issues we discuss are application topology, directory integration, data security, scalability, performance, and availability. We describe setup of VisualAge for Java for development with the Sametime 2.0 toolkit, and we identify where the virtual place technology provided by Lotus products is used in the application. In the second part of the book we discuss integration details for QuickPlace, Sametime, and WebSphere Commerce Suite. We show how to use these products together to implement a number of capabilities, including: - Awareness, which lets the customer service agent know who is on the Web site and what are they doing - Live help to enable users to get immediately in touch with a customer service agent by clicking a help link - Web page redirection to allow the customer service agent to redirect the user's browser to another page - The ability to create QuickPlaces (private secure spaces) on the fly - A way to show users a list of all their QuickPlaces The additional Web material for this redbook contains the files we used for our QuickPl

Lotus Sametime is a real-time collaboration tool that allows you to communicate with others instantly. Sametime 2.0 brings new features and functionality to the table, with the most notable being real-time audio and video. These exciting new features combine with the existing tools of real-time chat, conferencing, and application sharing, which were already available in the previous version of Sametime. Because of the wealth of features in the product, it is important to understand how Sametime 2.0 functions and what its impact will be before deploying it in your organization. This redbook will help you install, tailor, and configure the new version of Sametime 2.0 to meet your business needs. It provides all the information you need to make decisions on how best to deploy Sametime 2.0. Specifically, this redbook describes the different installation options for Sametime, planning considerations, upgrading from Sametime 1.5, hardware recommendations, and performance considerations. A detailed look at the Sametime 2.0 architecture and components is provided, as well as descriptions of some of the exciting extensions to Sametime, such as Sametime for WAP and translation services. The different Sametime clients available are discussed, and an example of a real-world deployment of Sametime 2.0 between two companies over the Internet is presented.