Help Wanted Ads for the SIP Communicator project


The help wanted section of the SIP Communicator project reflects is for developers looking for an interesting project to work on. It contains a list of tasks that are considered important for the project and to which there is currently no one assigned to.

Every project ad has the following fields:

  • Title - the title of the ad (surprised?)
  • Description - a short description of the job that needs to be done. This is not supposed to be a complete specification of the task. Further details are given to interested developers.
  • Skills Needed - A rough summary of the skill that a developer/contributor should have should they be willing to take up the task.
  • Priority - between 1 and 100. The more a task is considered urgent - the higher its priority value is.
  • Date Posted - The date that the task first appeared on the list.
  • Before taking up a certain task you may want to check the Get Involved page to make sure that you understand the project rules and principles.


    Title and Description Priority Initial Post Date
    Platform specific deployment assistants for the SIP Communicator

    SIP Communicator uses JMF to capture transmit receive and playback video. JMF is shipped inside the sip-communicator webstart installation package. JMF performance pack need some special attention for different platforms. The point here is to create custom modules for operating systems that handle JMF deployment and configuration (and any other specific manipulations imposed by various operating systems)

    Skills Needed: J2SE, GUI, Linux, Programming, Swing

    85 Aug 18 2004
    Putting up a brief user manual (and adding it to the UI?)

    The user manual currently available on the SIP Communicator site is quite outdated and applies to an old version of the project. A good user manual (as well as continuing support for it) is quite necessary for the project. If interested the author may also integrate the manual with the sip-communicator user interface using the The JavaHelp System.

    Skills Needed: English, Good Understanding of the application, SWING and the The JavaHelp System if the contributor would like to continue their effort to an on-line help

    Contact: emcho@dev.java.net

    70 Aug 18 2004
    Support for RFC3515 - REFER

    The REFER request is being used by many telephony gateways for the implementation of different features such as web phonebooks for example. Implementing support for the REFER Request in the SIP Communicator shouldn't be that complicated but would OTOH be very useful for the project.

    Skills Needed: Programming, SIP

    Contact: emcho@dev.java.net

    60 Aug 18 2004
    Creating JUnit test cases for classes of the SIP Communicator.

    Any testcase is welcome! So don't be shy - code sth and hand it up. A very easy way to get involved with this project!

    Skills Needed: JUnit, Programming

    Contact: emcho@dev.java.net

    55 Aug 18 2004
    Putting up developer oriented project description documents.

    Provide high-level detailed description of the SIP-Communicator architecture.

    Skills Needed: English, Programming, Very good understanding of the project architecture.

    Contact: emcho@dev.java.net

    45 Aug 18 2004