Besides being in the showcase today I went to the “Meet the developers” lab today and spent the better part of 2 hours in there talking to various developers on the Sametime Connect client team and Sametime server team. Special thanks to Jessica Ramirez from the Connect client team for taking the time.
Besides getting some invaluable help with my own sidebar component I got exactly the info I needed on how to send richtext through the Sametime Java API – it’s not straight forward, not documented and not something you figure out on your own. Suffice to say it includes knowing the right hex codes and correct data structures. Jessica actually brought up the actual source code of the Sametime Connect client to show how it’s done!
What’s an important lesson from this that if you need some piece of information go and ask!
lekkimworld.com 
FYI This is totally documented…
It was added to the Sametime 7.5.1 Integrators guide documentation.
It’s pretty easy to use, I use it in Stock bots, makes them look really slick.
Click to access c2387080.pdf
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Well it’s not sending richtext per say (bold etc.) – it’s sending the inline images for img-tags. The classes you need aren’t even in the javadoc. More later.
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Ah OK.
Hey sorry I didn’t get time to come to your booth, I would have really liked to have met you in person. Someone with an equal passion for Sametime as me I believe 😀
Carl
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