[Asterisk-Users] Softphone with Lotus Notes support?

[tim panton]

On 11 Nov 2005, at 12:49, Paul Davidson wrote:
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> As someone who uses and develops Notes and Asterisk on an almost  
> daily basis, I can tell you two things:
> 1. Technically, all softphones 'support' Lotus Notes- if Notes knew  
> how to pass them a number, they'd dial it.  Notes, however,  
> especially in it's address book, doesn't support anyone.
> 2. Since Notes is one heck of a lot more programmer-friendly than  
> Outlook/Exchange will ever be (I'm not biased, really..), adding  
> such functionality to your address books would be a snap.  Simply  
> pick a softphone you like that supports any sort of API to accept  
> dialing, preferably one that supports URI dialing (DIAX comes to  
> mind, but it's really up to you), and modify the design of your  
> address book (personal or system) to turn the Phone Number field  
> into a link hotspot.  Click, done.
>
> What I have done goes another step farther into the dark side-  
> since Domino natively supports LDAP, I wrote a script to pull all  
> names and numbers (10,000 of them) out of Domino using LDAP, drop  
> them into a MySQL database, then re-present it on my Cisco phones  
> as a directory, and via Apache as a web service, which supports  
> click to dial via call files in Asterisk. I'm now working on an  
> agent for individual user Personal Address Books to 'synchronize'  
> with this directory structure, so I can combine a user's personal  
> contacts with the main 'corporate' directory when they are  
> searching for contacts. I'd offer it here, and someday I might,  
> however, since each corporate Domino enviromnet is so very  
> different, I have to basically restructure the code for each  
> implementation- and I havent made the code mature enough to have  
> anyone other than me do it. So for now, it's a single-client  
> application. But, I'd be happy to share implementation details with  
> anyone who wants to email me offline.
>
> -pbd
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Do you think there would be any interest in a softphone that supports  
LDAP ?

T.