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1 - ST Links and other toolkits are very much alive and well (with an eye towards future enhancements), and at a minimum will be covered in JMP208 - Leveraging the IBM Lotus Sametime Platform ({ Link } )

Posted by Adam Gartenberg At 04:15:07 PM On 12/11/2007 | - Website - |

2 - @1 Thanks Adam.

Any insight on the COM and C++ toolkits and Java toolkits are they going to be enhanced? Any plans for an AJAX ST Links?

A toolkit roadmap would be a great help for 3rd party developers to get an idea of where IBM is heading.

Posted by Carl Tyler At 04:18:14 PM On 12/11/2007 | - Website - |

3 - Until stlinks is re-implemented as pure javascript/ajax/dhtml, it's not going to fly. I went to the trouble of building and testing the functionality on a public facing website, but the annoyance factor with the signed applets and so on was just too high for users.

Posted by Andrew Pollack At 06:47:58 PM On 12/11/2007 | - Website - |

4 - @3 I think for public facing sites you're right. However I know some really large companies that use it within their intranet pages, DWA, Quickr etc. It works well for them, but they are controlled desktops.

I think it might be time for me to investigate an AJAX client interface for STLinks.

Posted by Carl Tyler At 06:50:13 PM On 12/11/2007 | - Website - |

5 - An update to ST Links would be highly appreciated. The current java version does not really allow a public rollout without lots of pain...

Posted by Marius Neumann At 03:16:38 PM On 12/30/2007 | - Website - |