IBM® Lotus® Real-Time Collaboration (RTC) Gateway now available!
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IBM® Lotus® Real-Time Collaboration (RTC) Gateway now available!. You can now download this from Passport Advantage. I have not yet installed it, hope to find time in the next couple of days. The website says:
Real-Time Collaboration Gateway Release Notes
It looks like you have to use LDAP, at least Domino LDAP is supported. I am really excited that this is finally here, but I haven't even installed this thing yet and it feels like it's going to be a pain in the arse. I mean think about it, this thing is going to be facing the outside world, it will have Websphere and DB2, if you don't know these things, how do you know 100% that you have them configured securely? What's the gateway storing in DB2? Is it some huge relational store with every known Sametime user in the world? Why couldn't Domino be used? What highly transactional process is taking place in the DB2 datastore? All this knowledge required just to setup a gateway. Why didn't IBM take a blackbox approach with the gateway? Anyway I'll let you know how it goes. Although right now I can see everything required for the installation except the gateway code itself.
IBM® Lotus® Real-Time Collaboration (RTC) Gateway now available!. You can now download this from Passport Advantage. I have not yet installed it, hope to find time in the next couple of days. The website says:
IBM Lotus Real-Time Collaboration (RTC) Gateway lets you connect your IBM Lotus Sametime® instant messaging community with external communities, including other Lotus Sametime and public instant messaging communities, such as AOL®, AIM®, ICQ®, and Apple® iChat™ as well as Google Talk service (available today) and the Yahoo Messenger community (available soon). The Lotus RTC Gateway provides server-to-server interoperability between disparate communities with conversion services for different protocols, presence awareness, and instant messaging. You can connect your Lotus Sametime community to AOL through the IBM Lotus Sametime Provisioning Application (see the following section for more details). Lotus RTC Gateway replaces the Lotus Sametime Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Gateway from earlier releases of Lotus Sametime.Time to get some websphere and DB2 skills I guess, as the Lotus RTC Gateway uses IBM DB2 for storage and DB2 must be configured and installed prior to installing the gateway. Basically I think this was the Workplace IM gateway, but rebranded away from the scary Workplace brand. You will need a much much bigger box than you may currently running your SIP gateway on.
Real-Time Collaboration Gateway Release Notes
It looks like you have to use LDAP, at least Domino LDAP is supported. I am really excited that this is finally here, but I haven't even installed this thing yet and it feels like it's going to be a pain in the arse. I mean think about it, this thing is going to be facing the outside world, it will have Websphere and DB2, if you don't know these things, how do you know 100% that you have them configured securely? What's the gateway storing in DB2? Is it some huge relational store with every known Sametime user in the world? Why couldn't Domino be used? What highly transactional process is taking place in the DB2 datastore? All this knowledge required just to setup a gateway. Why didn't IBM take a blackbox approach with the gateway? Anyway I'll let you know how it goes. Although right now I can see everything required for the installation except the gateway code itself.
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