Create recurring appointment - relative monthly recurrence

The following example shows you how to create recurring appointment. Appointment occurs last friday every month and has no end date. When creating recurring appointment important is to set the MeetingTimeZone property.

import java.text.ParseException;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.List;

import com.independentsoft.exchange.Appointment;
import com.independentsoft.exchange.Body;
import com.independentsoft.exchange.DayOfWeek;
import com.independentsoft.exchange.DayOfWeekIndex;
import com.independentsoft.exchange.GetServerTimeZonesResponse;
import com.independentsoft.exchange.ItemId;
import com.independentsoft.exchange.NoEndRecurrenceRange;
import com.independentsoft.exchange.Recurrence;
import com.independentsoft.exchange.RelativeMonthlyRecurrencePattern;
import com.independentsoft.exchange.RequestServerVersion;
import com.independentsoft.exchange.Service;
import com.independentsoft.exchange.ServiceException;
import com.independentsoft.exchange.TimeZoneDefinition;

public class Example {

    public static void main(String[] args)
    {

        try
        {
            Service service = new Service("https://myserver/ews/Exchange.asmx", "username", "password");
            
            service.setRequestServerVersion(RequestServerVersion.EXCHANGE_2010_SP1);

            TimeZoneDefinition timeZone = getTimeZone(service, "Berlin"); //find time zone based on name
            //TimeZoneDefinition timeZone = getTimeZone(service, "UTC-08:00"); //find time zone based on offset

            SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
            Date startTime = dateFormat.parse("2024-02-26 16:00:00");
            Date endTime = dateFormat.parse("2024-02-26 18:00:00");

            //Monthly recurrence. Last Friday in every month.
            List<DayOfWeek> days = new ArrayList<DayOfWeek>();
            days.add(DayOfWeek.FRIDAY);

            RelativeMonthlyRecurrencePattern pattern = new RelativeMonthlyRecurrencePattern(1, days, DayOfWeekIndex.LAST);
            NoEndRecurrenceRange range = new NoEndRecurrenceRange(startTime);

            Recurrence recurrence = new Recurrence();
            recurrence.setPattern(pattern);
            recurrence.setRange(range);

            Appointment appointment = new Appointment();
            appointment.setSubject("Last Friday");
            appointment.setBody(new Body("Body text"));
            appointment.setStartTime(startTime);
            appointment.setEndTime(endTime);
            appointment.setRecurrence(recurrence);
            appointment.setStartTimeZone(timeZone);
            appointment.setEndTimeZone(timeZone);

            ItemId itemId = service.createItem(appointment);
        }
        catch (ServiceException e)
        {
            System.out.println(e.getMessage());
            System.out.println(e.getXmlMessage());

            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        catch (ParseException e)
        {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
    
    private static TimeZoneDefinition getTimeZone(Service service, String name) throws ServiceException
    {
        GetServerTimeZonesResponse response = service.getServerTimeZones();

        for (TimeZoneDefinition timeZone : response.getTimeZoneDefinitions())
        {
            if (timeZone.getName().indexOf(name) > 0)
            {
                return timeZone;
            }
        }

        return null;
    }
}

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