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connecting to gmail, hotmail, yahoo etc.

 
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Hello,

I have assignment to login by providing yahoo, gmail, hotmail etc. credentials like facebook or other social media network sites and to import their contacts.

Can you please let me know the logic or idea as to how this could be achieved in java servlet?

Thanks in anticipation
 
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I would recommend writing adapter classes, based on a common Interface, to login to the various social network & e-mail sites.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adapter_pattern
 
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and you can use OAuth to connect to various sites. Please see the below link for detail
http://oauth.net/code/
 
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check Scribe it's an implementation for OAuth
 
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