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Re: How does Mail.app link up to AddressBook?

Henry Story wrote:

>Does anyone know (or know someone who knows) how Mail.app communicates with
>AddressBook to display the picture of the sender in the mail metadata pane?
>Is there anyway one can do the same from a Java application?

Searching ADC:
  <http://developer.apple.com/search/search.html>

with these keywords:
  address book api

shows this likely candidate:
  <http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/AddressBook/index.html>

Further confirmation can be obtained with this command:
  otool -L /Applications/Address Book.app/Contents/MacOS/*

which shows AddressBook.framework as one of the referenced frameworks.


>I.e. what do I have to do to my Semantic Web AddressBook so that it can
>communicate with Mail? Is there anything I need to do to get the same
>integration with iChat and other apps?

I think the answer will be something like "replace the AddressBook
framework", which seems like a large amount of work, assuming it's even
possible. 

Maybe you can make the semantic book a service in the Services menu.
Here's an example that lets any shell script become a service.  Might be
adaptable to Java:
  <http://wafflesoftware.net/thisservice/>

  -- GG


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