System information

</response>

</ajax-response>

$ wget --load-cookies cookies.txt "http://localhost:8088/mxml?action=waitevent" -O -

<ajax-response>

</response>

<generic event='PeerStatus' privilege='system,all'

channeltype='SIP' peer='SIP/0000FFFF0004'

peerstatus='Registered' address='172.16.0.160:5060' />

</response>

</response>

</ajax-response>

Development Frameworks

Many application developers write code that directly interfaces with the AMI. However,

there are a number of existing libraries that aim to make writing AMI applications

easier. Table 20-5 lists a few that we know are being used successfully. If you search

around for Asterisk libraries in any other popular programming language of your

choice, you are likely to find one that exists.

Table 20-5. AMI development frameworks

Framework Language URL

Adhearsion Ruby http://adhearsion.com/

StarPy Python http://starpy.sourceforge.net/

Asterisk-Java Java http://asterisk-java.org/

CSTA

Computer-Supported Telecommunications Applications (CSTA) is a standard for

Computer Telephony Integration (CTI). One of the biggest benefits of CSTA is that it

is used by multiple manufacturers. Some of what is provided by CSTA can be mapped

to operations available in the AMI. There have been multiple efforts to provide a CSTA

interface to Asterisk. One of these efforts is the Open CSTA project. While none of the

authors have experience with this CSTA interface to Asterisk, it is certainly worth con-

sidering if you have CSTA experience or an existing CSTA application you would like

to integrate with Asterisk.

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