The Lotus Sametime 8.0 telephony service includes voice and video chat functions and the click-to-call function. Along with these new features of voice and video chat and the click-to-call functions. By utilizing the extensible platform based on the Eclipse plug-in framework which Lotus Sametime 8.0 provides, it is possible to expand real-time communication with telephony and audio-visual capabilities. Lotus Sametime Telephony client toolkit can be used to develop new plug-in applications on top of Lotus Sametime Connect.

As an example,  a simple video chat application development which provides the following features is described in the article that could be found here.

  • An application that displays as a rectangle area in Lotus Sametime Connect client UI
  • Video chat caller, which can specify a recipient and start a video chat on the application UI
  • Video chat recipient, which can automatically accept the incoming video chat request
  • Embedding of both the local screen and the remote screen in the application UI