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It is now possible to add formatting to your ESME messages. Through the use of the Textile formatting language, you can create messages with bold, italic, etc.

For example, the messages in the top message were created with the following lines:

_emphasis_
*strong*
__italic__ **bold** ??citation??
-deleted text-
+inserted text+
^superscript^
~subscript~
%span%
@code@

We haven’t gotten all the Textile possibilitites  to work but we are trying to get as many as possible to be available for users.

Have fun.

DemoJam only gives each team six minutes to present their innovations on stage.
This is not much, so when we were given the opportunity to give a 45-minute “Meet the Jammers” in-depth session the following day in the Clubhouse Theater, we happily took it.

This session was streamed live on Ustream.tv, and gives you a deep dive into what makes ESME tick.

Courtesy of Thomas Jung’s Flickr, the above image provides a good indication of what ESME’s web client looks like in SAP Web Dynpro. Who would have thought a screen could look so cool in an SAP environment?

esme.us = esME+US, which kinda suggests that we’re all in this together. Sounds about right.

Blag, me and Marilyn Pratt – pic courtesy of Marilyn Pratt

Head down: pic courtesy of Marilyn Pratt

Onstage, Jen and David: pic courtesy of Gregor Wolf

Esme on the big screen: pic courtesy of Gregor Wolf

David Pollak at RIA hacker night: pic courtesy of Gregor Wolf

Now that we’re open, and ESME Desktop alpha has been released, here is a short 5 min video which would help you start playing with the ESME Desktop Flex/AIR source code … I will talk about the structure and the architecture of the code in another post .. till then, grab the code and have fun hacking.

Do let us know if you have any questions, suggestions, bugs, features, at the developer discussion list.

Watch Video.

The ESME REST API is now available for you to build some cool applications with, checkout this presentation David gave at TechEd for a detailed documentation of the API.

Our API server address for http://esme.us is http://api.esme.us/esme/api/

The ESME team is looking forward to all the cool applications you will build with the ESME API. If you have questions please ask them at our developer discussion group.

ESME is now completely open source and available under the Apache 2.0 license. Our open source home is on Google Code at http://esmeproject.googlecode.com

Here are the various aspects of the project that are now open for anyone to use and contribute to…

• Source code for the ESME Server and the Web client developed with Scala/Lift
• Source code for the ESME Desktop client developed in Adobe Flex/AIR
• REST based API
• Open development discussion group

Come and contribute to ESME.

The ESME Desktop is ready for a public alpha. Get it now.

It is built on Adobe Flex and Adobe AIR, runs on both MacOS and Windows .. and will also run on Linux once Adobe AIR for Linux (currently in alpha) is out of development.

The code for ESME Desktop is completely open sourced and available on ESME open source Google Code page.

Here is a brief video to get you started with ESME Desktop. If you haven’t created an ESME account yet you should see the getting started with ESME video too ..

Here are some screen shots of ESME Desktop in action ..

I created a a quick screen cast to show how to create an openid and get started with using ESME ..