Re: Accessing Thunderbird

A Thunderbird extension would be the best way to go.  JavaXPCOM cannot 
embed Thunderbird.

You can use Java in your extension by following this doc: 
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Java_in_Firefox_Extensions.


javier


[email protected] wrote:
> Hi everyone!
> 
> I'm working on an academic project where I need to read data from
> Thunderbird/Lightning such as contacts, events, todos but also which
> folder is currently selected and so on.
> The application will be written in java so my first guess was to take a
> look at JavaXPCOM to access the Thunderbird/Lightning components. I've
> used a similar approach for MS Outlook where it is very easy to access
> the outlook object-model via a java-COM-bridge.
> Unfortunately I could not find any example code or documentation that
> describes how to access the Thunderbird/Lightning components with
> JavaXPCOM. Now I'm not sure if using JavaXPCOM is the right approach
> anyway for my requirements. Would it be more appropriate to write a
> Thunderbird-extension that contacts java and sends the required
> information than calling XPCOM from java ?
> 
> It would be very helpful if someone could point me in the right
> direction... ;-).
> 
> Regards
>  Christian
>