You can develop an application that uses either of two instant message (IM) event gateway types provided with ColdFusion: an IBM Lotus Sametime gateway, and an Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) gateway.

You should be familiar with ColdFusion event gateway principles and programming techniques (see Using Event Gateways).

Contents

• About ColdFusion and instant messages
• Configuring an IM event gateway
• Handling incoming messages
• Sending outgoing messages
• Sample IM message handling application
• Using the GatewayHelper object