Hi,
Thanks all !!!
Regarding the evo-address-book integration with OpenOffice, following option looks
good:
The Evoab Driver directly calls the evo-data-server api instead of calling the 'Helper
fork like evolution-addressbook-export'. As the glib integration is already in
OpenOffice there doesnt seem to much problem in linking evo-data-server/Orbit and
dependent components and calling the apis, hopefully ;-) .
Since the evolution/addressbook/tools/evolution-address-export* already have the
functionality, some of the code can be used after porting it over evo-data-server
apis.
If someone has already done this or is in the process, it will be very helpful ;-) .
I am currently sinking my teeth into it :-)
regards
Amit
>>> Frank Sch�nheit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 11/20/03 2:28:26 PM >>>
Hi Berry, Leon, Amit,
the message below was cc'ed to me by Michael meeks some days ago. It
looks like Novel/Ximian is going to do something about the Evolution
integration ...
Some introductions:
Berry and Leon are Sun engineers located in Beijing, who also did/do
work on the Evolution integration in OpenOffice.org/StarOffice. Berry
wrote the current OpenOffice.org-side code for this, and Leon joined the
"Address Book Integration Team" some weeks ago.
Well, all I know about Amit is that he's got the quite interesting task
from Michael, as cited below :)
This mailing list was introduced to allow easier communication between
Sun and Ximian about the EvoAB integration. Amit, upon request of
Michael, I added you to this list, which makes a lot of sense I think.
So: welcome :).
Amit, if you have any questions about the EvoAB integration done OOo,
please feel free to use this list - all of us who have knowledge about
the topic should linger here :)
Again, welcome - I'm really looking forward to the changes sketched by
Michael below ...
Ciao
Frank
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: evolution / LDAP / Exchange / Groupwise integration ...
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 15:38:13 +0000
From: Michael Meeks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Organization: Ximian.
To: Amit Shrivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CC: Krishnan R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, ximian-openoffice
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Chris Toshok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Frank Sch�nheit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi Amit,
The major task I'd like you to be working on is quite a large one.
Essentially - the background is this:
* Existing OO.o LDAP integration uses a nastily hacked, and
un-sustainable chunk of Mozilla code included in a nasty
fashion into the tree. We cannot ship this.
* LDAP integration is however crucial, and it would be great to
be able to grok Exchange / Groupwise / iPlanet /
OpenGroupwise.org etc. contacts via. Evolution.
* Currently there is a nasty 'fork a helper' hack that will
extract local contact data from evolution-1.4 however this
is inelegant, slow etc.
* So: the task is:
+ checkout evolution-data-server from Gnome CVS
+ build it / get it working nicely ( you'll most
likely need HEAD libbonobo / ORBit2 too ).
+ dig at the TestGtkIntegration code (OOO_1_1_0/apply)
particularly the glib-integration.diff in order to
get CORBA message processing working nicely.
+ play with the MailMerge feature :-)
+ research & understand and document the salient points
of how the existing backend works:
+ cf. connectivity/source/drivers/evoab*
+ cf. the other database backends eg.
+ Integrate with the new addressbook APIs in the best
way possible.
+ Ensure that the default contacts setup provided is
the evolution backend & it's associated providers.
Anyhow - that's a suitably large task, and will throw up some nice
complexities I think. Chris Toshok can help you with any problems with
the Addressbook APIs (I think), and Frank can help out if you get
desperately stuck with the connectivity code I imagine - but he's a busy
man so don't badger him :-)
HTH,
Michael.
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Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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