[android-developers] Re: Exchange Server Support

[Timbobsteve]

Hi Zero, For what it's worth I can supply my time and effort to an Exchange client/library. From what I can see most of the opensource stuff on MAPI is limited to Exchange 2000. Most other implementations access Exchange through Outlook Web Access (OWA) + WebDAV. I will read up on using WebDAV and then we can look into getting an Android WebDAV client library in place. I'm not the best programmer, but everyone starts somewhere right? Cheers. zero wrote: if there would be a group of developers willing to build an opensource implementation of MAPI for java, i'd be happy to contribute. but it's way to huge to tackle it alone. at least, for me. there's propably a few other ways, like webdav, to connect to exchange, but they differ in stability, and clearly an opensource mapi implementation would be way more elegant. zero openintents.org zeroblog.exu-mobile.com On Oct 17, 1:20 pm, Timbobsteve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi All, This isn't another thread asking if exchange server is supported on Android... so don't worry :P I just wanted to start a dialog with other developers about how to possibly tackle the MS Exchange support issues on Android. I'm not the best coder in the world, so I can't really provide example code or anything, but this is more of a discussion-type thread. >From what I can tell, my iPhone uses WebDAV to connect to Exchange to get mail (correct me if I'm wrong). So I started looking @ opensource implementations of Java WebDAV clients and came across Apache SLIDE Server and Client. Unfortunately Slide has been discontinued. There is not that it was replaced by Apache JackRabbit, but from what I can see JackRabbit is a Server implementation of WebDAV technologies. I was also searching for Java MAPI support, but a lot of the MAPI APIs for Java are closed-source and licensed... which is not good IMHO. What other options for exchange support do people see? Do you think it is a worthwhile pursuit? Do you think it will happen and will it be a paid-for product on AndroidMarket, or will someone make an open-source client? There is a lot of reading to be done on WebDAV and how it integrates into Exchange... so I am going to start doing some reading. Feel free to share your ideas and thoughts. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---