ESME can play a part in the IT of your organization, especially to connect processes with the people executing them. Most of the scenarios are based on available APIs in the ESME software.

||Name of the API||Status||Comments||more details at...||
|ESME REST-like API|Out-of-the-box available|The current API does not completely fulfill the requirements of RESTful APIs. Compliance with the REST standard is however on the tasklist of the team.|[Link to description|RESTAPI]|
|Twitter-like API|Out-of-the-box available|Compliance with the Twitter-API serves to enable usage of Twitter clients with an ESME instance. {footnote} Current positioning is that ESME will have in future both a twitter-like and an own API.{footnote}|[Link to documentation|Twitter API], [Link to SVN|http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/incubator/esme/trunk/server/src/main/scala/org/apache/esme/api/TwitterAPI.scala?view=log]|

Based on the APIs mentioned above, the following clients/programming libraries are available:{footnote}All entries are based on the REST-like API, if not stated otherwise.{footnote}

||Programming language or environment||Status|||More details at...||
|ABAP Client|Working source code available|[Generic Web-Dynpro ABAP Client source code|http://code.google.com/p/esmeproject/source/browse/trunk/esme-abap/ESME+ABAP+Client/], [ABAP Send message source code|http://code.google.com/p/esmeproject/source/browse/trunk/esme-abap/#esme-abap/ABAP%20Send%20Message%20REST%20API%20and%20Function%20module], [ABAP Object Watch|http://code.google.com/p/esmeproject/source/browse/trunk/esme-abap/#esme-abap/ABAP%20Object%20Watch]|
|Adobe AIR client|Out-of-the-box available|[Installation guide|ESME Desktop AIR Client]
|Apache ANT action|JAR file available|[Link to blog entry|'http://blog.esme.us/esme-client-for-ant/]|
|Java Library|JAR file available|[Link to blog entry|http://blog.esme.us/improved-java-api-moved-to-apache/]|
|JavaScript Client|Example script available|[Link to code.google.com|http://code.google.com/p/esmeproject/wiki/PureJavascript_messaging_client]  [Link to blog entry|http://blog.esme.us/pure-javascript-messaging-client/]|
|PLSQL Client|Example script available|[Link to code.google.com|http://code.google.com/p/esmeproject/wiki/PL_SQL_Client_for_ESME]|
|SAP NetWeaver Logger Client|Example script available|[Link to blog entry|http://blog.esme.us/the-netweaver-logger/]|
|VBA Client|Example script available|[Link to blog entry|http://blog.esme.us/esme-and-shadow-it-the-vba-client/]|

Find below a list of different integration options.

||Integration/interface with...||Use case||Current maturity level||Comments||more Details at...||
|email systems|Receiving emails|Additonal software needed|There is a plugin available for the [open source mail server James|http://james.apache.org/] to forward emails to ESME. Connecting with other mailservers involves development of a small piece of software, which call the ESME APIs. |[Link to docs.google.com|http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=df96bz6v_18cw9vrcwr]|
|email systems|Sending emails|Out-of-the-box available|ESME sends emails based on user defined [actions]. ESME relies for sending eMails on the JavaMail API and its required settings.|[Sending emails from ESME]|
|MS Sharepoint|Retrieving ESME conversations|Internal testcase|(needs to be documented)| |
|Yahoo Pipes|Information retrieval from other microblogging tools|Working configuration document available|Link to blog entry|http://www.esjewett.com/blog/twitter-pipes-esme]|


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