[otlkcon-devel] Project status?
Hi, I'd like to know if there's been any progress of getting the oltkcon message store getting recognized as a 'default' message store in Outlook. Currently, the only connector I know of who manages to do this is the Microsoft Louts Notes connector, available for free from Microsoft. (Maybe this one can be used for debugging / reverse engineering, or even as an intermediary, since the Lotus Notes protocol is better known? Just a thought... ) Thanks, - Hanno. --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click ___ otlkcon-devel mailing list otlkcon-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/otlkcon-devel
[otlkcon-devel] Project Status
Hello, I have just started searching for a way to connect Outlook to an open source server for calendaring purposes mainly. In the process I found out about this project, but I was unable to access the web site and I noticed the last e-mails on the list were from April, so I wanted to find out if this project was still alive or not. Thanks for the information. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Oracle Space Sweepstakes Want to be the first software developer in space? Enter now for the Oracle Space Sweepstakes! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7393&alloc_id=16281&op=click ___ otlkcon-devel mailing list otlkcon-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/otlkcon-devel
Re: [otlkcon-devel] Project status?
Hello Hanno, Currently, I'm shooting for a 'basic' message store provider. Current project priority is to complete the basic/generic message store. The last interface I believe that is needed to be implemented for this phase is IMAPITable ( in progress ). The basic store is all that's needed to support calendaring, although a default store would be much more convenient. Hence it may be a while before we get to default message store status ( will update the website with this ). Hanno Foest wrote: Currently, the only connector I know of who manages to do this is the Microsoft Louts Notes connector, available for free from Microsoft. (Maybe this one can be used for debugging / reverse engineering, or even as an intermediary, since the Lotus Notes protocol is better known? Just a thought... ) Well the specs for developing a default store are known ( in theory at least ), so I don't believe that is would be an issue. The issue really is getting the work done. - Kervin --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click ___ otlkcon-devel mailing list otlkcon-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/otlkcon-devel
Re: [otlkcon-devel] Project status?
Hello Hanno, Currently, I'm shooting for a 'basic' message store provider. Current project priority is to complete the basic/generic message store. The last interface I believe that is needed to be implemented for this phase is IMAPITable ( in progress ). The basic store is all that's needed to support calendaring, although a default store would be much more convenient. Hence it may be a while before we get to default message store status ( will update the website with this ). Hanno Foest wrote: Currently, the only connector I know of who manages to do this is the Microsoft Louts Notes connector, available for free from Microsoft. (Maybe this one can be used for debugging / reverse engineering, or even as an intermediary, since the Lotus Notes protocol is better known? Just a thought... ) Well the specs for developing a default store are known ( in theory at least ), so I don't believe that is would be an issue. The issue really is getting the work done. - Kervin --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click ___ otlkcon-devel mailing list otlkcon-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/otlkcon-devel
Re: [otlkcon-devel] Project Status
Darrell A. Sullivan, II: > I have just started searching for a way to connect Outlook to an open source > server for calendaring purposes mainly. In the process I found out about > this project, but I was unable to access the web site and I noticed the last > e-mails on the list were from April, so I wanted to find out if this project > was still alive or not. The project is alive. The activity is going up and down, depending on when people can find the time to work on it. -- Thomas --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Oracle Space Sweepstakes Want to be the first software developer in space? Enter now for the Oracle Space Sweepstakes! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7393&alloc_id=16281&op=click ___ otlkcon-devel mailing list otlkcon-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/otlkcon-devel
Re: [otlkcon-devel] Project Status
Hello everyone, I took about a month long break to finish up the spring semester and to start work on a new contract. But connector work will start up sometime next week. The summer goal is to have a beta connector that connects to the CalDAV reference server. It would be great to have some help getting there. The server component I've settled on, at least initially is "Cosmo" CalDAV server, which is in early Alpha release stages but is set to be the CalDAV reference server. Temporary homepage for Cosmo can be found at http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Journal/CosmoTempHome CalDAV homepage http://ietf.webdav.org/caldav/home.html Other backends will certainly be possible by modifying the transport layer a bit to support the respective protocols. As for the technical details; Currently, Outlook tries to download messages into the message store but does not complete because a few methods on the IMsgStore interface need to be implemented. This is the obvious next step. Our IMAPITable interface needs 'Sort' functionality implemented, as well 'in-memory views' support and few other improvement. IMessage interface still needs to be implemented. Then the fun with the transport provider starts. Work is needed getting a C++ client library for CalDAV, at least prototyped soon or any time before work on the transport provider starts. The current plan is to do something from scratch using MSXML library. This means that all of the WebDAV protocol that CalDAV requires will have to be done. This needs to start soon if not to delay the completion of the transport provider. PS. The website [ http://openconnector.org/ ] seems to be working fine for me. Regards, Kervin Darrell A. Sullivan, II wrote: Hello, I have just started searching for a way to connect Outlook to an open source server for calendaring purposes mainly. In the process I found out about this project, but I was unable to access the web site and I noticed the last e-mails on the list were from April, so I wanted to find out if this project was still alive or not. Thanks for the information. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Oracle Space Sweepstakes Want to be the first software developer in space? Enter now for the Oracle Space Sweepstakes! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7393&alloc_id=16281&op=click ___ otlkcon-devel mailing list otlkcon-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/otlkcon-devel --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Oracle Space Sweepstakes Want to be the first software developer in space? Enter now for the Oracle Space Sweepstakes! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7393&alloc_id=16281&op=click ___ otlkcon-devel mailing list otlkcon-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/otlkcon-devel
Re: [otlkcon-devel] Project Status
Darrell A. Sullivan, II wrote: Hi Kervin, Thanks for the update on the project status. I am still unable to access the openconnector.org for some reason. Even clicking on links to it from your e-mail and google result in a server not found error. I am able to ping the IP address of 67.15.20.32 successfully, but I am not able to bring up the web page. I have even tried putting the IP address into both Internet Explorer and FireFox. Must be some sort of DNS problem somewhere along the line. That's strange. Is anyone else having trouble getting to http://openconnector.org/ ? Regards, Kervin --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Oracle Space Sweepstakes Want to be the first software developer in space? Enter now for the Oracle Space Sweepstakes! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7393&alloc_id=16281&op=click ___ otlkcon-devel mailing list otlkcon-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/otlkcon-devel
[otlkcon-devel] Project Status Update
Hello, It's hard to say exactly when we will get to a build that can be released as a public Beta. Although a lot of progress has been made we still have some work to do. Not having dedicated resources on the project makes it harder to estimate these things. But even with this said, I am hoping to have an early Beta next month sometime. Even before Beta1, we'd like to release a developer snapshot when some of the major features being worked on right now, eg. CalDAV synchronization, are better tested. We can get there a lot sooner with your help. Please consider helping out with time if you have experience working with MAPI or a donation [ http://sourceforge.net/donate/index.php?group_id=66565 ]. Thanks to everyone who has kept an interest in this project. We will definitely keep you posted. Best Regards, Kervin --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click ___ otlkcon-devel mailing list otlkcon-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/otlkcon-devel
[otlkcon-devel] Project Status for 2006-11-09
Hello, There has been a lot of cool things happening lately. We finally got Bedework Calendar Server [ http://bedework.org/ ] support working with modifications to both the Bedework and OpenConnector project source. Those changes are in source control still for both projects but will be available in the next releases. We now support two open source servers, Cosmo [ http://cosmo.osafoundation.org ] and Bedework, and one commercial server, Oracle CalDAV server. There should be a lot more server choices in the future. The installer has been redone, and should behave better. If you have installation issues, please let me know. Feedback is very important to finding and resolving bugs. Internally there has been a lot of fixes but a lot more needs to be done. If you are thinking about helping out please take a look at the bug tracker... http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=66565&atid=514925 ...and let me know what you find interesting. There is lots of work to be done... (i) Completing the iCalendar feature support for various event types. (ii) Speed up the entire plugin. First by speeding up the IMAPITable class. (iii)Completing the project unit tests. (iv) Thorough testing of the sync process. (v) Completion of the Addressbook provider for calendar sharing capability. Currently only individual calendars are supported. A new milestone will be released when we have done some more bug fixes and speed improvements. Hopefully by the end of this month. As usual, please consider helping with development if you have a background in MAPI programming or consider making a donation to the project... http://sourceforge.net/donate/index.php?group_id=66565 Best regards, Kervin - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 ___ otlkcon-devel mailing list otlkcon-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/otlkcon-devel
