Sending MS Outlook Meeting Request

[vidi]

Hi all,

Can someone please send me a working JAVA code that would send a Meeting Request to MS Outlook ?

I Badly need this ASAP ...

My id: mailvidi@gmail. com

Thank You,
Vidi

[vidi]

Hi all,

Can someone please send me a working JAVA code that would send a Meeting Request to MS Outlook ?

I Badly need this ASAP ...

My id: mailvidi@gmail. com

Thank You,
Vidi

Hi People ... finally my friend & i have found the solution ourselves !!! If you want the code, lemme know ...
K.R.Vidya Shankar

[andys1316]

Hi People ... finally my friend & i have found the solution ourselves !!! If you want the code, lemme know ...
K.R.Vidya Shankar

Can you please post the code? I've been looking for this solution for sometime. Thanks!

[mailvidi]

Ok People, here's it.. Lemme know if that works..

public void send(String uniqueId, Date reviewDateTime) throws Exception
{
String from = "123@456.co m";
String to = "456@456.co m";
String meetingStartTim e = getReviewTime(r eviewDateTime, false);
String meetingEndTime = getReviewTime(r eviewDateTime, true);
Properties prop = new Properties();
StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
StringBuffer buffer = null;
Session session = Session.getDefa ultInstance(pro p, null);
Message message = new MimeMessage(ses sion);

try {
prop.put("mail. smtp.host", "192.168.112.11 1");
prop.put("mail. smtp.port", "25");

// Define message
message.setFrom (new InternetAddress (from));
message.setReci pients(Message. RecipientType.T O, InternetAddress .parse(to, false));
message.setReci pients(Message. RecipientType.C C, InternetAddress .parse("123@456 .com,456@456.co m,789@456.com") );
message.setSubj ect("This is the subject of the Meeting Request");
message.setHead er("X-Mailer", "iQuest-Mailer");

// Create the message part
MimeBodyPart messageBodyPart = new MimeBodyPart();
buffer = sb.append("BEGI N:VCALENDAR\n"
+ "PRODID:-//Microsoft Corporation//Outlook9.0 MIMEDIR//EN\n"
+ "VERSION:2. 0\n"
+ "METHOD:REQUEST \n"
+ "BEGIN:VEVENT\n "
+ "ATTENDEE;ROLE= REQ-PARTICIPANT;RSV P=TRUE:MAILTO:1 23@456.com\n"
+ "ORGANIZER:MAIL TO:456@456.com\ n"
+ "DTSTART:" + meetingStartTim e + "\n"
+ "DTEND:" + meetingEndTime + "\n"
+ "LOCATION:Confe rence room\n"
+ "TRANSP:OPAQUE\ n"
+ "SEQUENCE:0 \n"
+ "UID:" + uniqueId + "@456.com\n "
+ "DTSTAMP:" + meetingEndTime + "\n"
+ "CATEGORIES:Mee ting\n"
+ "DESCRIPTION:Th is the description of the meeting.\n\n"
+ "SUMMARY:Te st meeting request\n" + "PRIORITY:1 \n"
+ "CLASS:PUBLIC\n " + "BEGIN:VALARM\n "
+ "TRIGGER:PT1440 M\n" + "ACTION:DISPLAY \n"
+ "DESCRIPTION:Re minder\n" + "END:VALARM \n"
+ "END:VEVENT \n" + "END:VCALENDAR" );
messageBodyPart .setFileName("m eeting.ics");
messageBodyPart .setDataHandler (new DataHandler(new ByteArrayDataSo urce(buffer.toS tring(), "text/iCalendar")));
messageBodyPart .setHeader("Con tent-Class","urn:con tent-classes:calenda rmessage");
messageBodyPart .setHeader("Con tent-ID", "calendar_messa ge");
Multipart multipart = new MimeMultipart() ;
multipart.addBo dyPart(messageB odyPart);
message.setCont ent(multipart);
Transport.send( message);
}

catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTra ce();
}
}

public String getReviewTime(D ate reviewDateTime, boolean flag)
{
Calendar c = Calendar.getIns tance();
SimpleDateForma t s = new SimpleDateForma t("yyyyMMdd") ;
c.setTime(revie wDateTime);

if (flag)
c.add(Calendar. MINUTE, 30);

String hour = c.get(Calendar. HOUR_OF_DAY) < 10 ? "0"
+ c.get(Calendar. HOUR_OF_DAY) : ""
+ c.get(Calendar. HOUR_OF_DAY);
String min = c.get(Calendar. MINUTE) < 10 ? "0" + c.get(Calendar. MINUTE)
: "" + c.get(Calendar. MINUTE);
String sec = c.get(Calendar. SECOND) < 10 ? "0" + c.get(Calendar. SECOND)
: "" + c.get(Calendar. SECOND);
String date = s.format(new Date(c.getTimeI nMillis()));
String dateTime = date + "T" + hour + min + sec + "Z";
return dateTime;
}

private class ByteArrayDataSo urce implements DataSource
{
private byte[] data; // data for mail message

private String type; // content type/mime type
ByteArrayDataSo urce(String data, String type)
{
try
{
// Assumption that the string contains only ascii
// characters ! Else just pass in a charset into this
// constructor and use it in getBytes()
this.data = data.getBytes(" iso-8859-1");
}
catch (Exception e)
{
e.printStackTra ce();
}
this.type = type;
}

// DataSource interface methods
public InputStream getInputStream( ) throws IOException
{
if (data == null)
throw new IOException("no data exception in ByteArrayDataSo urce");
return new ByteArrayInputS tream(data);
}

public OutputStream getOutputStream () throws IOException
{
throw new IOException("il legal operation in ByteArrayDataSo urce");
}

public String getContentType( )
{
return type;
}

public String getName()
{
return "dummy";
}
}

Regards,
Vidi

[techdisc]

Thank you, your post was very helpful. I could manage to send meeting request using the code you posted.