SailFin CAFE - Search API for communications

SailFin CAFE, like other converged application development frameworks has changed the converged application development paradigm. Having used CAFE APIs so far, if one thought that application development has never been so fast and so easy, things  just got better with v1 b28. Communications (conversation, conference, imconversation, imconference...) that were created by applications were managed by the framework,  and were presented to the Communications Bean method when an event occurred. This was perfectly fine if the application component was a Communication Bean, because it is called for action only when an event occured. Extensive application code was required (including maintaining the communications that were created by this application), if a Http servlet wanted to query details about a communication that was created from a Communicaton Bean. The communication search API in the CommunicationService was created specifically to address such use cases. These APis that have been introduced in v1 b28, allow application components to search communications in a variety of ways including communication name, sender and receiver, type of communication etc.. For e.g To get all the conversations that were created by this application, one would do    Collection comms =                 communicationService().findCommunications(Conversation.clas...

Date: April, 12 2010
Url: http://www.java.net/blog/rampsarathy/archive/2010/04/11/sailfin-cafe-search-api-communications

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