Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] Sync for phpGW: Milestone 3

[Dave Hall]

Hi Markus,

Congrats on getting this far.  Great work.  Unfortunately I will have to
wait until the devcon to see it working - no time to set it up and play :(

Cheers

Dave

Markus Kaemmerer <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> good news: we are on milestone 3 for your implementation of
> synchronization in phpGW.
> 
> Sync is working now for many tested end user devices. We managed to
> get a full sync in both ways with a Sony Ericsson P800, a PocketPC
> (through Weblicon Sync Client), a PalmOS PDA (through Weblicon Sync
> Client) and Outlook (trough Weblicon Sync Client) and a Nokia Handy
> via GPRS. It should work with any other SyncML capable devices.
> 
> In this milestone we completely removed the use of Sync4j databases.
> Everything importend for sync is fetched through XML-RPC and the IPC
> classes from phpGW, including sources, mapping and so on. A good
> amount of work has been put into the export and import interfaces for
> vCard, because this format is the standard address interchange format
> in SyncML.
> 
> Because of the new Java based Sync4j modules we simplified the
> installation process a lot. 
> 
> Everyone is encouraged to help us testing the new sync capabilities.
> The latest files are located in the HEAD CVS branch on savannah (check
> out module "sync"). The sync module is tested against the 0.9.16
> release version of phpGW. 
> 
> The installation instructions are located in "sync/doc/Installation
> Guide for Sync4j.pdf". In this directory there are more documentation
> files, including the database diagram and the concept file.
> 
> For the next milestone we want to test conflict handling, adding more
> documentation to the source code and running more interoperability
> tests. 
> 
> Hope, we will see us at DevCon while CeBIT in Hannover
> (http://www.pbdemo.de/devcon.html).
> 
> Please report any questions or bugs here in this thread.
> 
> Markus
> 
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