Hi FreeSWITCHERs, I have finally got around to lining up all the bits I wanted in order to do a first release (version 0.9.2) of the Java ESL Client that has been in the freeswitch-contrib git repository for some time now. First thanks to the people who checked it out, compiled it and reported some bugs. (I believe I have fixed them all :-) I have created a couple of new wiki pages for the Java and ESL topics: [1] to cover the various options that I know about to use Java for connecting to the very useful and versatile Event Socket. If there are other options or info, you know what to do, it is a wiki. [2] to describe my contributed Java ESL Client, with download, compile, and basic usage documented. The details are there, a quick summary of this client library features: * Apache License (ASL) version 2 * Standalone ready to use Inbound client * Framework classes to very easily create an Outbound socket client * based on the excellent Netty [3] nio library * logging via slf4j * only runtime dependencies are slf4j-api and netty (MIT and Apache licensed) * single jar which is a valid OSGi bundle * built using maven, * jar, source and javadocs available from maven central (GPG signed) * source is committed as an eclipse project * good coverage of java docs Now it is available as released binary jars it is easier to experiment with. Roadmap: Tentative next steps are outlined in [2] and a TODO file in git. After wider usage and feedback on the API design I would aim to release a version 1.0 and then simply track any ongoing changes in the core FreeSWITCH ESL. I enjoy getting feedback if you find it useful or have issues, patches or enhancement ideas. I know a few projects around the place have been using it even in un-released state :-) Hope it finds use out there ... davidv [1] http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Java_ESL [2] http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Java_ESL_Client [3] http://www.jboss.org/netty -- david varnes e: david.varnes@gmail.com p: +61 404 925 633