I want to exchange E-Mails from a locally installed Microsoft Outlook through a Java Application which is running on a Tomcat Server.
In the past this was no Problem but since we switched the tomcat server from a “normal” starting routine to be started as a service (which is done for performance reasons) my Connection to Outlook is not working anymore.
As I was searching for a Solution to this quite for a long time (with no found solution) I decided to leave a post here.
I already know, that
The Outlook Object Model is unsuitable to run in a Windows service
which can be found at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/237913. Due to the registry hive HKEY_CURRENT_USER which is not loaded when a service is started.
But in this case I think a simple ‘No – that’s not possible’ can’t be a solution and that’s why I am asking here for help.
- Is it for example possible to let the application on the tomcat start a new local application which then connects to Outlook?
- Is it possible to manually load the HKEY_CURRENT_USER hive?
- or on the other hand do this by using a solution which I did not mention yet?
Thanks a lot in advance!
You probably need to create a plugin to outlook which submits the email to your application using web-services (or similar).
I believe this is the usual way of realising requirements like this.