How can i trap telephone ring in java

[Dishi Malhotra]

hello to all
plz tell me that in Visual Basic there is TAPI api and some controls to make software for the telephone online service plz tell me that how can i make in java
what should i use to trap telephone ring through modem
and i want to connect the database of the computer to telephone so that the customer can enquiry themselves through telephone plzzzz help me
thanx

[Cindy Glass]

Visual Basic has the luxery (and limitation) that it KNOWS you are running a windows environment on a PC. Therefore it can deal with the operating specific things like how ringing phones are handled.
I would expect that you need to use some JNI here. Perhaps use the Visual Basic stuff (or C++) to create a native method and blend it in with the java stuff using a Native interface.
here is a description. http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/Books/advancedprogramming/

[Nathan Pruett]

I have heard of a javax.telephony API... perhaps it could help in this case, perhaps not... I don't know enough about this stuff personally...
-Nate

[Cindy Glass]

COOL !!!
The things you learn at JavaRanch!!!
This is a FAQ from Sun:
http://java.sun.com/products/jtapi/faq.html
and here is the API for it: http://java.sun.com/products/jtapi/jtapi-1.2/packages.html