Getting Started

• Retrieving and building the sources

* More on Using CVS * Building the SIP Communicator from to command line ** Building the project from CVS sources ** Use Ant to build the project ** Ant build targets

• SIP Communicator and IDEs
  • How to configure Eclipse
  • How to configure NetBeans to compile and debug SIP Communicator
• Becoming a Project Member

Generic Developer Guidelines (or before you start coding)

• How to define your test user accounts
• How to run subsets of the unit test suite
• How to report bugs effectively
• Becoming a SIP Communicator Committer
• The SIP Communicator Code Convention
• Before and after committing code
• Log levels
• Design of the JUnit tests
• SIP Communicator API

Tutorials

• How to create OSGi Services for SIP Communicator
• How to write GUI plugins
• How to implement support for your favorite protocol in SIP Communicator
• How to create and maintain a SIP Communicator installer
• How to translate SIP Communicator
• How to add key bindings

SIP Communicator Base Services

• Call History Service
• Configuration Service
• File Access Service
• History Service
• Media Service
• Message History Service
• Meta Contact List Service
• Protocol Provider Service
• UI Service

SIP Communicator protocols and plugins

• The DICT protocol