Help creating a Meeting Request for Outlook using JAVA

From:
"al" <sal141@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
16 Mar 2007 08:38:36 -0700
Message-ID:
<1174059516.321797.232180@p15g2000hsd.googlegroups.com>
I have been trying to figure out a way to create a meeting request
programmatically using JAVA Mail. So far I was able to create an email
and a meeting that goes out as an attachment, which users can open and
accept/decline and so forth.

I have not been able to send this as an actual meeting request. I want
it to work as if a meeting reminder that comes from Google Calendar
(if set up to send reminders to other emails that use Outlook) and
shows up on Outlook Calendar.

I have tried several things but no success. I have not modified the
code after doing several attempts to fix it, so it might have a lot of
redundant information.

Any Help would be appreciated...

Thanks!!

public class CalendarRequest {
    public CalendarRequest() {
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        try {
            CalendarRequest email = new CalendarRequest();
            email.send();}
        catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); }
    }

    public void send() throws Exception {
        String host = "smtp.host.com";
        String from = "abc@domain.com";
        String to = "abc@domain.com";
        Properties prop = new Properties();
        // prop.put("mail.smtp.host", "mailhost"); -- format
        prop.put("mail.smtp.host", host);

        try {
            Session session = Session.getDefaultInstance(prop, null);
            // Define message
            MimeMessage message = new MimeMessage(session);

            message.addHeader("Mime-Version", "1.0");
            message.addHeader("PRODID","-//Microsoft Corporation//Outlook 10.0
MIMEDIR//EN");
            message.addHeader("version","2.0");
            message.addHeader("method","REQUEST"); // Can be CANCEL to cancel
meeting
            message.addHeader("charset","UTF-8");
            message.addHeader("component","VEVENT");
            message.setFrom(new InternetAddress(from));
            message.addRecipient(Message.RecipientType.TO, new
InternetAddress(to));
            message.setSubject("Outlook Meeting Request Using JavaMail");

            StringBuffer sb ;
            StringBuffer msg = CalendarRequest.EmailMessage();

            // Microsoft
            StringBuffer buffer = CalendarRequest.createMeetingText();

            StringDataSource sdSource = new StringDataSource(buffer.toString(),
"text/calendar", "meetingRequest");

            // Fill the message
            MimeBodyPart meetingPart = new MimeBodyPart(); // for meeting
request
            MimeBodyPart messageBody = new MimeBodyPart(); // for email message
            MimeBodyPart attachmentBody = new MimeBodyPart(); // for
attachments

            meetingPart.setDataHandler(new DataHandler(sdSource));
            meetingPart.setContent("",sdSource.getContentType());
            messageBody.setHeader("Content-Class","urn:content-
classes:calendarmessage");
            messageBody.setHeader("Content-ID", "calendar_message");
      messageBody.setContent(msg.toString(), "text/plain");

            // Create a Multipart
            Multipart multipart = new MimeMultipart();

            // Add part one - meeting request - not working right now
            multipart.addBodyPart(meetingPart); // adds the actual meeting
            // add part two - actual email message
            multipart.addBodyPart(messageBody); // add the email description

            // Part three is attachment

            String filename = "DCM Request.ics"; // need to change this later
            attachmentBody.setFileName(filename);
            attachmentBody.setContent(buffer.toString(), "text/plain");

            // Add part two
            multipart.addBodyPart(attachmentBody);

            // Put parts in message
            message.setContent(multipart);

            // send message
            Transport.send(message);

        } catch (MessagingException me) {
            me.printStackTrace();
        } catch (Exception ex) {
            ex.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

    public static StringBuffer EmailMessage()
    {
        StringBuffer bf = new StringBuffer();
        bf.append("Here is the line1 of email\n"
                + "Here is line2 of message\n"
                + "Create an HTML file instead"
        );
        return bf;
    }

    public static StringBuffer createMeetingText()
    {
        StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
        sb
        .append("BEGIN:VCALENDAR\n"
                + "PRODID:-//Microsoft Corporation//Outlook 9.0 MIMEDIR//EN\n"
                + "VERSION:2.0\n"
                + "METHOD:REQUEST\n"
                + "BEGIN:VEVENT\n"
                + "ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;RSVP=TRUE:MAILTO:abc@domain.com
\n"
                + "ORGANIZER:MAILTO:abc@domain.com\n"
                + "DTSTART:20070316T053000Z\n"
                + "DTEND:20070316T060000Z\n"
                + "LOCATION:Conference room\n"
                + "TRANSP:OPAQUE\n"
                + "SEQUENCE:0\n"
                + "UID:
040000008200E00074C5B7101A82E00800000000002FF466CE3AC5010000000000000000100\n"
                + " 000004377FE5C37984842BF9440448399EB02\n"
                + "DTSTAMP:20051206T120102Z\n"
                + "CATEGORIES:Meeting\n"
                + "DESCRIPTION:This the description of the meeting.\n\n"
                + "SUMMARY:Test meeting request\n" + "PRIORITY:5\n"
                + "CLASS:PUBLIC\n" + "BEGIN:VALARM\n"
                + "TRIGGER:PT1440M\n" + "ACTION:DISPLAY\n"
                + "DESCRIPTION:Reminder\n" + "END:VALARM\n"
                + "END:VEVENT\n" + "END:VCALENDAR");

    return sb;
    }

    private static class StringDataSource implements DataSource {
        private String contents;
        private String mimetype;
        private String name;

        public StringDataSource(String contents, String mimetype, String
name) {
            this.contents = contents;
            this.mimetype = mimetype;
            this.name = name;
        }

        public String getContentType() {
                return (mimetype);
        }

        public String getName() {
            return (name);
        }

        public InputStream getInputStream() {
            InputStream is = null;
            try {
                is = new BufferedInputStream(new FileInputStream(
                        "c:\\temp\\tempfile.txt"));

            } catch (Exception ex) {
                System.out.println("Exception occured: " + ex.getMessage());
            }
            return is;

        }

        public OutputStream getOutputStream() {

            ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
            return out; // doing nothing - including error handling later...
        }
    }
}

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