Microsoft to bridge Exchange development gap
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This week, Microsoft plans to unveil the XSO API that will enable Exchange Server features to be found and tapped by external applications, said sources close to the company. A flock of XSOs, or Exchange Server Objects, either downloadable or shipping with the next version of Exchange Server, would facilitate application development and the integration of outside applications with Exchange-based functionality, these sources said. The next Exchange Server, code-named Titanium, is due next year.
"There might be a contact XSO or a deployment XSO, for example, that would wrap together previous work including HTTP webDAV [Web Distributed Authoring Version] calls into components," said one source briefed on the plans. The news will be announced later this week at Microsoft's MEC 2002 conference in Anaheim, Calif.