Understanding Java Telephony

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Summary: Great Hard Copy Reference of Original JTAPI Spec
Review: I was one of the lucky ones that Sun Microsystems gave away this book to at a Computer Telephony trade show about 5 years ago. They gave away hundreds as part of a promotion/launch of JTAPI. In fact, according to Sun, they commissioned the writing of this book with the publisher as a companion to the JTAPI spec which is on their web site. Of course, the JTAPI spec is free, but the book has been a nice reference. It also has a few chapters in it on Sun partners and what they do, and this is NOT on the web site. There's also a useful glossary.

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Summary: A direct copy of the JTAPI web site. Better to go there free
Review: This book does nothing more than copy the entire set of JTAPI documents (which are freely available) from the Sun web site. Worse, they are presented in a sloppy and unformatted manner. You are better off to simply go to the Sun site & download the docs or look to other sources than to buy this book. If however you do not have access to the web, then a hard copy of the docs may prove useful.