Tired of waiting for the Vaporware to condense into something that works? (Open Source Push Email available also for Pocket PC/WM5?)

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New just been posted in MSmobiles about an open source Project called Funambol

Now MSmobiles has always been keen to be setting the record straight with regard to MS's claims about the Push email (MSFP, AKU2, etc.) just being around the corner, pointing out about the onging court action by Visto, so it will be interesting to see what sort of reply Jason has regarding this and when we might actually start to see some releases by the Carriers?

What is quite exciting is that although this is listed as an Open Source Project for PocketPC's, if it works fine for WM5 then the only real reason why it won't work with SmartPhone WM5 should *simply* be down to a screen resolution issue? Surely?

So it looks like there might actually be another very viable alternative that also looks like it has made some significant inroads in to supporting Exchange, Notes, Blackberry without the need for a NOC and a monthly charge per user? Certainly the list of modules makes intriguing reading, although I'm wondering about where and/or how they managed to get the ActiveSync license? ;-))

Sync4j v2.3 (stable)

Server Bundles:  all you need to start on the server

• Sync4j bundle 2.3 for Windows [63Mb]
  full download of the server, including Apache Tomcat, file system connector, Sync4j Admin, Sync4j Java GUI Client, and the PIM Web Demo.
• Sync4j bundle 2.3 for Linux [77Mb]
  full download of the server, including Apache Tomcat, file system connector, Sync4j Admin, Sync4j Java GUI Client, and the PIM Web Demo.

Client Plug-Ins:  to synchronize your client data

• Sync4j Outlook Client Plug-in 2.0.32 [1.7Mb]
  SyncML Client Plug-In for Outlook, capable of synchronizing Contacts, Calendar, Tasks and Notes from Outlook 2000, 2002/XP and 2003.
• Sync4j Pocket PC / Windows Mobile Client Plug-In 1.7.9 [1.7Mb]
  SyncML Plug-In Client for Pocket PC / Windows Mobile PDA, capable of synchronizing Contacts, Calendar, Notes, Tasks and files from Pocket PC 2003.
• Sync4j BlackBerry Client Plug-In 1.2.3 [178Kb]
  SyncML Client Plug-In for BlackBerry, capable of synchronizing Contacts and Calendar.
• Sync4j Palm Client Plug-In 1.1.3 [47Kb]
  A Palm based Sync4j Client to synchronize contact data.
• Sync4j iPod Client 1.0.16 for Windows [1.3Mb]
  SyncML Client Plug-In for iPod, which synchronizes Contacts and Calendar via the standard iPod cable. This client runs on 32-bit Windows.
• Sync4j Mozilla Client for Windows 1.0.2 [1Mb]
  SyncML PIM Client for Mozilla, capable of synchronizing Calendar. This is a Sync4j community project.

Server Connectors:  to connect with back-end systems

• Sync4j Exchange Connector 1.3.4 [674Kb]
  connector to extract and write data into Microsoft Exchange.
• Sync4j Domino Connector 1.2.1 [1Mb]
  closed source connector by Funambol, to extract and write data into a Lotus Domino server.
• Sync4j Email Gateway 1.0.5 [40Kb]
  an email gateway to support mobile email (POP, IMAP, SMTP) to corporate servers.
• Sync4j SugarCRM Connector 1.0.1 [268Kb]
  connector to extract and write data into SugarCRM ver. 3.0c.
• Sync4j LDAP Connector 1.0 beta 1 [21.5Kb]
  connector to extract and write data into an LDAP server.
• Sync4j Allora DB Connector [29.4Mb]
  closed source connector by Hit Software, to visually extract and write da ta into a SQL database.
• Sync4j Kolab Connector [801Kb]
  connector for the Kolab groupware server.

Client SDKs:  to develop mobile applications

• SyncClient API Java J2SE 2.8.5 [915.4Kb]
  SyncML API for Java J2SE.
• SyncClient API Java J2ME 2.7.4 [237Kb]
  SyncML API for Java J2ME.
• SyncClient API C++ Native 1.1.10 [1.2Mb]
  SyncML API Native in C++ (supported target environments: Win32 and PocketPC / Windows mobile).

Useful individual packages and tools

• Sync4j Server DS 4.2.3 [15.7Mb]
  download just the DS server. You can plug it in a servlet container (such as Tomcat or a J2EE Application Server) on any OS.
• Sync4j Server DM 1.4.8 [8.1Mb]
  download just the DM server. You can plug it in a J2EE Application Server (such as JBoss) on any OS.
• Sync4j Admin 1.2.6 for Windows [17.2Mb]
  the visual administration interface for the Sync4j DS Server.
• Sync4j Admin 1.2.6 for Linux-Unix [9Mb]
  the visual administration interface for the Sync4j DS Server. It is a .tgz file, which runs on Linux or Unix.
• Sync4j Java GUI Client Example 1.0.11 for Linux-Unix [1.6Mb]
  graphical Sync4j Client to test PIM data (contacts and calendar) synchronization. It is a .tgz file, which runs on Linux or Unix.
• Sync4j Java Command Line Client Example 2.8.5 [438Kb]
  basic command line SyncML client in Java. Useful to test that the server is working properly.
• Sync4j DM Win32 Client 1.0.1 [447Kb]
  A demo DM Client for Windows
• Sync4j Java GUI Client Example 1.0.11 for Windows [1.6Mb]
  graphical Sync4j Client to test PIM data (contacts and calendar) synchronization.