[sync] Introduction & Plans to use Horde's SyncML in another project

[Karsten Fourmont]

Hi,

that's great. If you have any questions, just ask (on the list).

In addition to Chuck's explanations here some more info. You need to 
deal with the following packages:

SyncML: obviously. Here you need to write your own backend
RPC: this deals with handling the HTTP request, setting up the
          XML ContentHandler and then invoking SyncML
XML_WBXML: this package does the WBXML encoding/decoding
iCalendar: not directly required. This does parsing/exporting in 
VCALEDNAR, VCARD format. IMHO interface is quite ,aehh, well not 
straightforward. But it's like this for compatibility reasons.

If you want to see what the horde backend code (currently backend.php) 
does, you need to look at lib/api.php of turba/nag/mnemo/kronolith.

Hope this helps. I'd very much like it if we can keep the SyncML in one 
common CVS. Maybe make a (real) PEAR package from it. The problem with 
developing syncml stuff is that there are a lot of different clients 
(phones) out there.  As you don't have them all, you rely on other 
people for the testing. So the bigger to userbase the better.

If you need any changes in the SyncML external interface to be able to 
use the SynCML package "as it is", just let me know. The line where RPC 
ends and SyncML starts has to be reworked anyhow.

Cheers,
  Karsten

Mike Hostetler wrote:
> I'm a newbie on this list and I wanted to introduce myself.  My name is 
> Mike
> Hostetler.  I'm a PHP/MySQL guy living in Denver, Colorado.  I have been
> working with PHP for approximately 6 years now.  I am involved with open
> source, mostly in the Drupal community.  You can read more about me on my
> blog: http://www.amountaintop.com.
> 
> I have a project that I'm starting in the next few weeks that would benefit
>> from SyncML.  I've been looking around at different SyncML options, 
>> reading
> the specs and I believe I have my head wrapped around it pretty well right
> now.  Because of a design constraint, I need the implementation to be 100%
> PHP.  My original plan was to roll my own because I hadn't found Horde's
> SyncML implementation yet!  I was overjoyed when I found your CVS 
> archive of
> the SyncML server.
> 
> I wanted to let everyone here know that I am planning on downloading it and
> working to integrate it with my project.  I am sure I will have questions,
> and I will definitely bring them here.  I also want to pave the way for me
> to contribute any patches back into the project.
> 
> The project I'm working on is a bit hush-hush at the moment.  However, the
> plan is to release it as open source software.
> 
> Thanks for your hard work!
> 
> -- 
> Mike Hostetler
> mike.hostetler at gmail.com
> http://www.amountaintop.com