java邮件会议邀请_通过ical4j与javamail实现会议邀请总结

ical4j

iCal4j is a Java library used to read and write iCalendar data streams as defined in RFC2445. The iCalendar standard provides a common data format used to store information about calendar-specific data such as events, appointments, to-do lists, etc. All of the popular calendaring tools, such as Lotus Notes, Outlook and Apple's iCal also support the iCalendar standard.

javamail

在使用javamail的时候，需要jaf的支持。javamail与jaf都可以直接登录oracle的网站下载得到

在通过ical4j与javamail实现会议邀请的时候，过程如下

1、通过ical4j创建一个Calendar，这个Calendar中可以包括VEvent、VAlarm、TODO等多项内容。而会议邀请则必须要包含VEvent，如果需要提醒，则可以包含VAlarm

2.、获取到Calendar后，将Calendar放入Message中通过javamail进行发送。在发送成功后，可能会碰到的问题有

(1)乱码。问题解决方法很简单。可以将Calendar按照某种编码格式例如UTF-8转换byte后，通过byte[]构建Message所用到的InputStream进行发送(这个只是解决问题的思路)

(2)通过foxmail接收到的会议邀请不能进行应答。。。QQ~~~这个问题偶没有耐心看了

(3)通过outlook接收到的会议邀请是附件，而非outlook所支持的日历项(这个问题还需要区分outlook的版本，如果版本较低的话有可能接收到的不是附件，而是calendar的报文---outlook express 6.0就有这个问题)。对于附件的问题，翻译http://squirrelsewer.blogspot.com/2008/03/ical4j-javamail-exchange-and-outlook.html中的资料了，找到了解决方法。以下是关键代码

public MimeMessage createMimeMessage(Session session) throws Exception {

MimeMessage mimeMessage = new MimeMessage(session);

mimeMessage.setSubject(getSubject());

mimeMessage.addFrom(from);

mimeMessage.addRecipients(Message.RecipientType.TO, to);

//以下两步骤的处理很重要，可以避免outlook将生成的日历项当做附件处理

Multipart multipart = new MimeMultipart();

MimeBodyPart iCalAttachment = new MimeBodyPart();

byte[] invite = createICalInvitation(getMeetingID(), getSubject(), getContent(), getMeetingStart(), getMeetingEnd(), getMeetingTimeZone());

/*setDataHandler的处理方式也是非常关键

如果直接按照处理

mimeMessage.setContent(iCalAttachment , "text/calendar");

则在邮件发送的时候会抛出如下异常

javax.activation.UnsupportedDataTypeException: no object DCH for MIME type text/calendar

这样发送能否成功目前没有找到解决方案

*/

iCalAttachment.setDataHandler(new DataHandler(new ByteArrayDataSource(new ByteArrayInputStream(invite), "text/calendar;method=REQUEST;charset=\"UTF-8\"")));

multipart.addBodyPart(iCalAttachment);

mimeMessage.setContent(multipart);

return mimeMessage;

}

private byte[] createICalInvitation(String _meetingID, String _subject, String _content, Date _start, Date _end, TimeZone _tz) throws Exception {

/**

以下两步骤的处理也是为了防止outlook或者是notes将日历当做附件使用增加的*/

CompatibilityHints.setHintEnabled(CompatibilityHints.KEY_OUTLOOK_COMPATIBILITY, true);

CompatibilityHints.setHintEnabled(CompatibilityHints.KEY_NOTES_COMPATIBILITY, true);

VEvent vEvent = new VEvent();

vEvent.getProperties().add(new Uid(_meetingID));

vEvent.getProperties().add(new Summary(_subject));

vEvent.getProperties().add(new Description(_content));

vEvent.getProperties().add(new DtStart(new DateTime(_start)));

vEvent.getProperties().add(new DtEnd(new DateTime(_end)));

Calendar cal = new Calendar();

cal.getProperties().add(new ProdId("-//Events Calendar//iCal4j 1.0//EN"));

cal.getProperties().add(Version.VERSION_2_0);

cal.getProperties().add(CalScale.GREGORIAN);

cal.getProperties().add(Method.REQUEST);

TimeZoneRegistry registry = TimeZoneRegistryFactory.getInstance().createRegistry();

VTimeZone tz = registry.getTimeZone(_tz.getID()).getVTimeZone();

cal.getComponents().add(tz);

cal.getComponents().add(vEvent);

//如果邮件得到的日历内容时乱码，可以考虑通过将日历内容按照某种编码转换成bytes后，在生成stream

ByteArrayOutputStream bout = new ByteArrayOutputStream();

CalendarOutputter outputter = new CalendarOutputter();

outputter.output(cal, bout);

return bout.toByteArray();

}