qsos evaluation of "kolab"

[Gunnar Wrobel]

Richard Bos <ml at radoeka.nl> writes:

> Op Thursday 07 February 2008 19:00:37 schreef Bernhard Reiter:
>> I just found this:
>> http://www.qsos.org/sheets/groupware/kolab/
>>
>> Hmm, I disgree on some of their results.
>> E.g. IMAP you could consider a remote API...
>
> You could, but it is not recognized as such (I think).  E.g. SOAP is 
> evaluated, and this is indeed recognized as  remote API.  The report does not 
> stated, for which purpose this remote API should be used.  Is it to populate 
> and to retrieve data from the server?  Wouldn't you call ldap in that case 
> the remote API?  However, I can imagine that people are more familair with 
> soap syntax than the ldap syntax.  So, yes I can imagine that people expect 
> an SOAP interface to be part of kolab.  Would that be hard to add? There is 
> already an http server running, so that's not the problem.  Now the 
> problematic part is the conversion from and to the SOAP structure to the ldap 
> structure.  That would be a nice GSoC subject ;)
>

This is basically just a debugging job as this is all already being
delivered by Horde. WebDAV, SOAP, SyncML, ... it is all there and just
needs someone checking if it works.

Cheers,

Gunnar

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