[Kolab-devel] Kolab and SyncML

[Bernhard Reiter]

Hi Fabio,

On Thursday 26 May 2005 16:32, Fabio Pietrosanti wrote:
> i'm looking around kolab to find out if it's possible to have my
> contacts and calendaring information syncronized via SyncML.

at first glance, there are two possibilities:
a) sync directly with the server
b) sync with a client.

On a closer look, only b) remains, if you count client
software that runs on a server. :-)
Of course syncing with Kontact and Outlook probably 
are most easily reached goals.
My guess is that syncing with Outlook/Toltec already works,
somebody would need to try.

> There are two source from which a mobile device could syncronize data:

[ both possibilities are conceptually clients running close to the server.]

> @Sync4j
> Sync4j is a syncml server with several plugin made in java but it's now
> well integrated within kolab.
> There is a project for Kolab-Sync4j integration here:
> http://www.skynet.ie/~jonathan/blog/
> Sync4j: http://sync4j.funambol.com/main.jsp?main=theproject

The project was for Kolab1 only. It demonstrated that writing a solution
like this can be fairly easy. Still it would be a significant effort to bring
it up to work with the Kolab2 Server and concepts.

For Sync4j I am not sure how deep we are in the Java-Trap for this one.
Has somebody tried to run this with Free Software Java implementations 
recently?

> @Horde SyncML

I don't know much about this one, except that the Kolab Webclient,
based on Horde is still in development and currently does not fully comply
to Kolab2 (e.g. no FB-triggering).


Bernhard
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