Give your applications a voice and you might be surprised what they have to tell you. By integrating IBM Lotus Sametime into other applications and allowing the applications to send instant messages (IMs), you can proactively alert administrators of problems before outages occur and provide them with specific fault information that can help the application perform at its maximum level.

Building Sametime into your applications requires no extra cost and minimal training. By using a flexible framework for your integration, developers are able to repeatedly use the same basic code to integrate this capability into different applications.

I’ll explain how and why I created a simple method for integrating Sametime into any application, unleashing the power of instant communication through IM. Administrators should know how Sametime can help them work with applications and ask their developers for this integration. To help developers create Sametime integration, I’ll provide a framework — IMEasy — and some simple Java code.