Re: Accessing Microsoft Outlook from a Java applet

From: Silvio Bierman (sbierman_at_idfix.nl)
Date: 02/23/04 

Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 00:55:25 +0100

"Daniel Pope" <daniel-po@shaw.ca> wrote in message
news:6Y6_b.594862$ts4.484069@pd7tw3no...
> Hello Everybody,
>
> I'm preparing for doing a daunting task: to access Out look Microsoft
> Outlook Express(regardles the operating system and Outlook version) from
a
> Java applet (after the client (user) acknowleges to run this applet on his
> machine).
> The user has to read the existent user Microsoft Outlook users accounts
and
> to setup another Microsoft Outlook user accont.
> As I know so far, that the only way is to access from the applet a .COM
> object on the client machine and this has the capability to access the
> Outlook.
> I am wondering if there can be other more direct ways from Java to read
the
> current user accounts settings such accessing the windows system registry
> for Outlook records (or other way).
> Is it possible to read the windows client registry (for Outlook from java
> applet- after the user acknowledges this action of course)?
> Thank you in advance for any eventual hints!
>
> Daniel
>
>
>

Daniel,

You will need native code for that. Most likely you must download, save and
load a windows DLL from the applet and do native calls to that DLL. The
applet will need to be signed for that. You can do anything you like from
the DLL uncluding Outlook(Express) and the registry (not that any
interesting Outlook data is in there).

Regards,

Silvio Bierman

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