In order to setup a test framework for the Funambol JCR connector, I had to setup a JCR repository server. This blog entry, will guide you to set up the test tools. To do this you need: to install and configure a tomcat server (I used the 5.5 version) to deploy the provided jackrabbit-server (see link below) to setup the jackrabbit-server servlet in order to use RMI ...

This article will be about the problems I encountered as a beginner in writing a Funambol connector. It aims at avoiding simple stupind things that makes you loosing time. The article will be based on the 3.0 Beta 1 version of Funambol: there are some API changes between Beta 1 and Beta 2, so the following lines might be wrong for the last version. Vocabulary ...

In order to understand Sync4J (also named Funambol), there are many hooks to use. First of all, the funambol data service server developer book to understand the architecture. After reading this paper, I needed to completely dive into Sync4J code. Hopefully, they provide an email connector to have an example. From now and in the following Sync4J posts, I'll write some notes ...

These days, I'm working on SyncML and Sync4J for Apogee synchronization purpose. I discovered some interesting points summed up in this article. What is SyncML ? SyncML is the specification of a synchronization protocol. Defined by the Open Mobile Alliance, it covers a large group of features. This protocol is mostly defined for connecting mobile devices like ...