Telephony Programming
- Songjie Zhou

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Telephony programming is defined as the integration and application of telephone networks and services with computer systems. Telephony programming is a subset of distributed programming and is subject to many of the same latency and communication issues other types of distributed processing endure.

Here are some leading Telephony APIs for Telephony programming:

Microsoft’s Telephony Application Programming Interface (TAPI)

http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/server/technical/networking/tapiconnect.asp

Novell and AT&T’s Telephony Service Application Programming Interface (TSAPI)

http://developer.novell.com/research/devnotes/1994/septembe/03/index.htm

Sun’s Java Telephony Application Programming Interface (JTAPI)
http://java.sun.com/products/jtapi/jtapi-1.2/Overview.html