[Phpgroupware-developers] [Sync] Milestone 5

[Markus Kaemmerer]

Hi,

our sync project is nearly completed now: we reached milestone 5. The
sync module is (nearly) fully developed and working now. The last days
we added the missing user interface functions and nearly completed
conflict handling. I also updated the whole documentations to reflect
the latest implementation details. Also the IPC interface supports now
all common modules and different MIME type versions (like vCard 2.1
and 3.0, which differ in quite some points). We did tests with many
common devices like Sony Ericsson P800, PalmOS, PowerPC (and T-Mobile
MDA) and different software solutions (Clients from Weblicon,
Synthesis, Weblicon and now Funambol, too). 

What is missing: 

- conflict handling works, but the UI for resolving conflicts after
the synchronization is not complete. This topic is complex, because
every supported module needs functionality to show the raw data from
the device in an readable form. The other three options are working.

- the MIME type from the device information record in SyncML is not
used at the moment. This is because Sync4j does not provide a direct
interface to get this information, so we are trying to find a
workaround for this

- We use Sync4j 1.2. The current version of Sync4j is 2.0. Funambol
has changed much internals, so we are in the process of adapting our
Java functions to Sync4j 2.0 to allow the use of the latest server
version. Because Sync4j 2.0 is not as stable as 1.2 at the moment,
this should be no real problem.

You'll find the latest source code and documentation in Savannah HEAD
branch, module "sync". Also in this branch you need the module
"ipc_test_suite". Copy the files from the directory
ipc_test_suite/sources to the API and application modules, overwriting
the old ones. This is the updated IPC interface with functions for
vCard/iCalendar ex- and import. You _always_ have to use the latest
functions from this source. Our sync module is tested and working with
the latest 0.9.16 cvs version.

The file sync/doc/Installation Guide for Sync4j.pdf contains
comprehensive documentation about the installation process of sync for
administrators.

If you have questions, please contact us

Markus


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