ical4j
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ical4j/files/
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();
}