create and preview new message in IBM lotus notes using java

Question

In my web application created with spring mvc, I am having a feature like, i am having a page with a message and a send hyperlink, on clicking the send link it should open a ibm lotus notes new message window, with the message copied along with to, cc, subject details dynamically like as shown in the picture.

Note: The lotus notes will be always running and logined within all the client systems.

I have tried to achieve this first by using mailto: HTML e-mail link feature, but got worked only in chrome and firefox, in IE it failed

Is there any way to achieve this by using java

My code is as given below

JSfiddle

html

<div ng-app='myApp' ng-controller="Controller"> 
    <b>Message :</b> {{message}}
    <br>
    <a href="mailto:manu?cc=jacob&amp;subject=Test%20Mail&amp;body={{message}}">Send</a>
</div>

script

var app = angular.module('myApp', []);
app.controller('Controller', function ($scope) {
    $scope.message = 'sample sample sample test message';
});

Main Page Screen

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Lotus notes new message when clicking the send hyperlink

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mailto: requires that the web bro0wser is configured with a default mail application. It sounds like on your test system only Chrome and Firefox have that setup. But you should not rely on mailto: unless you have full control of the web browsers. — Karl-Henry Martinsson
The language does not really matter, it is the capabilities of the platform that matters. A good and secure browser should not be able to access local resources. I think you may want to think through your solution a littl ebit first. — Karl-Henry Martinsson
There is an OLE API for Lotus Notes that can drive the client operations, but AFAIK nobody has built a Java interface that can call this API. It would not be as easy task. But FYI, the two root classes for the OLE API are Notes.NotesUIWorkspace and Notes.NotesSession - and be very careful not to confuse the latter with Lotus.NotesSession, because that is a COM API and it does not include any of the capabilities for driving the Notes UI that the OLE API does. — Richard Schwartz

Karl-Henry Martinsson Karl-Henry Martinsson · Accepted Answer · 2015-01-12T15:26:37

I would never build a web application that in any way relies on specific client software being installed and/or running locally. What I would do is to either make a call to iNotes in the browser, or simply create a mail form on the web where the user fill out the recipients and write the message. That page upon submission would call a Lotusscript, Java or XPages agent on the server that will create the actual email and send it.

I have a class for creating mail notification, you can use that as a starting point if you like.

http://blog.texasswede.com/lotusscript-mail-notification-class/

create and preview new message in IBM lotus notes using java

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