Fetching the contacts from the address book from any email server

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me.halcyon - 27 Jun 2006 10:40 GMT

Hi,

This may sound a very basic question.
Basically I want to fetch all the contacts from any email server say
Lotus Domino server or Microsoft Exchange server and display them. I do
not know how to do that in Java. Is there any generic way by which I
can do that?

I would appreciate any help or pointers regarding the same.

Thanks
~ Gaurav

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Tajonis - 27 Jun 2006 18:12 GMT

> Hi,
>
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> Thanks
> ~ Gaurav

I am going to make the assumption that the email server is properly
implemented using Active Directory. If this assumption is correct then
you can look @ using JNDI's directory searching abilities to search for
any information you need (Distribution Lists, Contacts, etc..).

You can have a look here as a starting point:
http://www.javaalmanac.com/egs/javax.naming.directory/pkg.html

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