Sun^TM Labs Conference Manager

Conference Manager is a web 2.0 application for managing, monitoring, and participating in conference calls. It works in a standard web browser using AJAX components for real-time updates of conference activity. Users interact with the Conference Manager List view to set up conference calls, set passcodes, and manage meeting permissions. From this view, they can also join the call with a single click. Conference Manager will dial out to them on either a regular phone or a SIP-based software phone. During the live call, users can see who is on the call and who is speaking as well as interact with a variety of in-call features. Users without access to a computer can dial-in and use the Conference Manager features from their telephone keypad.

Conference Manager is based on the Sun^TM Labs Voice Bridge which handles Voice over IP (VoIP) audio communication, including standard telephone features such as DTMF tone detection. The Bridge also does advanced audio mixing to support features such as private voice chat and individual volume control. Additionally, it supports high-fidelity audio up to CD-quality stereo.

Conference Manager uses SIP servlets and demonstrates the ability to use both enterprise and multimedia data in a single application. It is implemented on top of a JSR-289 prototype, demostrating the possibilities of this enhancement to the SIP Servlet specification. Conference Manager is packaged as a standard enterprise application and can be deployed in any Java^TM Enterprise Edition (Java EE) application server. The Conference Manager API allows telephony functionality to be integrated into other enterprise applications.