ntroduced with IBM Sametime version 8.5, the Sametime Proxy Server is a Web-based application server allowing applications to securely integrate with IBM Sametime and benefit from its real-time collaborative features, using a simple HTTP-based Representational State Transfer (REST) API and the JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) data format.

The main integration targets are rich Internet applications written in JavaTMScript, but thanks to its powerful and language-agnostic REST API, the Sametime Proxy Server can be used to provide real-time collaborative capabilities to any applications.
In this article, we specifically demonstrate how it can be used to integrate IBM Sametime with Java desktop applications. To get the most from the article, you should have a general understanding of HTTP and the REST architecture, and a feature-level knowledge of IBM Sametime.