connecting Mozilla Thunderbird from Java

Hello!
I want to connect Mozilla Thunderbird emailclient from my Java-Application.
So I want to read and edit contacts from Thunderbird and read and write ema=
ils from Thunderbird via my Java Application.
What can I do to solve this problem? Can I use JavaXPCOM or xulrunner?
Or what else can I do? =

I know the Java Outlook Connector (http://www.moyosoft.com/joc/). Is there =
anything like this for Mozilla Thunderbird?
If someone can give me some advice or some short sample code, that would be=
 nice.
Thank you very, very much!

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