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Hendrik Helwich a écrit :
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<pre wrap="">Hi Thomas,
Am Montag, 21. November 2011 10:41:58 schrieb Thomas Koch:
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I'll push regular updates to my bachelor thesis[1], if my Professor agrees.
Right now I've pushed a list of advantages (short) and disadvantages (long)
of using IMAP for a groupware like Kolab does.[2]
I've the impression that IMAP may have been a good, quick choice at the
beginning of the project that should be revised now.
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i agree. IMAP is not designed for such use cases and has therefore many
disadvantages. The main problem IMO is that there is no defined interface
(e.g. an API specification, a WSDL file or a client library).
So client development is very hard and end users and administrators have to
deal with many problems in practice.
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<pre wrap="">I'd like to propose as the subject of my bachelor thesis that I want to
outline a groupware architecture with the following properties and
implement a small part of it:
- restful protocols: portable contacts (now integrated in opensocial) and
Google's calendar API v3[3]
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Sounds good :-)
I work for Tarent AG which developed a Kolab web service which wraps the Kolab
IMAP server [1]. A restful protocol would be nice and opensocial and Google's
calendar API look promising
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Zimbra do that ; and i think it could solve a lot of problems to have
more control on the server side and a really efficient cache and way to
search (for groupware objects)<br>
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<pre wrap="">- NoSQL or plain files storage? CouchDB?
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>From my point of view as a Kolab client developer the interface has the most
importance and the storage is exchangebale.
If you think of a file storage maybe its also possible to use the current
Kolab server file storage in Cyrus and adapt it so that both (Cyrus and your
solution) work on the same files and you can offer the current Kolab IMAP
thing to connect existing Kolan clients.
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<pre wrap="">- CardDAV / CalDAV to reach many clients
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also a good idea IMO
Good luck :-)
Hendrik
[1] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://evolvis.org/projects/kolab-ws/">https://evolvis.org/projects/kolab-ws/</a>
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<pre wrap="">I'd appreciate any comments on the IMAP subject or my "restful groupware"
vision. Thank you!
[1] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://github.com/thkoch2001/bachelor-thesis">https://github.com/thkoch2001/bachelor-thesis</a>
[2] this link may change: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://thkoch2001.github.com/bachelor">http://thkoch2001.github.com/bachelor</a>-
thesis/multi/restful_groupwarese2.html
[3] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://code.google.com/apis/calendar/v3">http://code.google.com/apis/calendar/v3</a>
Regards,
Thomas Koch, <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.koch.ro">http://www.koch.ro</a>
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