[Chandler-dev] General Questions (Mobile Chandler?)

[Philippe Bossut]

Hi Alexandros,

Sorry for having taken so long to answer your email. Some quick answers 
to your questions:

Alexandros Nipirakis wrote:
> First: Does chandler provide a full SOAP mechanism?  I have found the 
> Windows Mobile is pretty good with SOAP messaging. 
We use SOAP in some Desktop plugins but I suppose this is not what you 
want/mean. You're certainly wondering if Chandler Server could be 
accessed through SOAP. That's a question you should ask on the cosmo 
list (cc-ed). Looking at the wiki though, SOAP is not listed as a 
supported protocol (it just mentions iCalendar/webcal, CalDAV, WebDAV 
and Atom) and there's no trace of SOAP in Bugzilla either. I haven't 
checked the mailing list archives though.

AFAIK, Cosmo (== Chandler Server) is pushing the use of Atom-pub for 
this kind of access (see 
http://chandlerproject.org/Projects/CosmoFeedServiceSpec). There's may 
be a way to get some SOAP interaction through Atom-pub but I'm not a 
specialist.

Best is certainly to wait for the Cosmo team to answer that thread.

> Third: Is this thought process (that is, creating a mobile client) 
> interesting to anyone aside from myself?  

It is *very* interesting to lots of people so you're certainly not 
alone. Windows Mobile might not have been our first choice but we 
certainly won't turn down any help of any kind on that front :)

> I am not a person who wants to pay through the nose for an Exchange 
> server.  Even so, I am essentially forced into it because my Mobile 
> Platform of Choice uses it to keep track of my calendar, contacts, and 
> email.  I would assume I am not the only person on the planet with 
> this dilemma.  Furthermore, since this is J2EE, I would imagine I 
> could easily put this on my hosted web server and run it myself, 
> rather than having to depend on some other hosting company running 
> Exchange for me.  
>
> I will probably be installing and testing out a chandler instance at 
> the end of the week on my Solaris box at home.  I again have a few 
> other things I am working on (outside of my normal job functions) so 
> it may be a bit till I can get something interesting out there, but I 
> am excited to think that maybe I can contribute something useful to 
> this already exciting project.  

Great! I gather from this that you already installed the server and, 
maybe, already contacted the Cosmo folks on IRC (couldn't see any email 
from you on the cosmo list). If not, I hope they will give you a warm 
welcome :)

Cheers,
- Philippe