On Sat, 31 May 2003, Daryl Manning wrote: > Did anyone try jiCal for what this guy is trying ? It doesn't even > require you to use JBoss anymore, you can just set a cron job every > couple of minutes to go through the directories and pick up changed > information.
Actually we did take a look at JiCal, although we did not get to the point of installing it. It looks like it would be very good for the Linux-side integration into the system, because it is able to take the iCalendar files generated by evolution, et al and generate free/busy files for them. These could then be stuck onto the WebDAV freebusy repository. I'm going to put it to the test next week once we've got the rest of the framework figured out. I'll report my results. Note that the free/busy information is very terse compared to a regular calendar. We have not yet figured out how to get outlook to emit its complete calendar in iCalendar (or vCalendar) format, although I expect there's a way... By the way, yesterday we installed and tested out exchange4linux, a GPL'd Exchange server replacement. For the client-side you use a (commercial, closed source) Outlook plugin. The exchange4linux server has a packaged demo version that works in a chroot environment that's fairly simple to set up for evaluation. We were able to get everything installed and configured easily enough but afterwards Outlook would hang big time. We later figured out that Norton Antivirus may have been getting in the road; we haven't re-tried it with NAV disabled but probably will give it a shot next week. We also began testing out SamsungContact, which promised all the features we were looking for. We were astounded by the many processes it uses; it includes its own LDAP, Antivirus, and a lot more. It seems to work but we've only tested it on a single client so far. We'll do more thorough testing next week. I don't know what the pricing is for this; we've sent in a request for a quote. Another program that we're going to evaluate is Crosswind's Synchronize, which one of us had used at a previous place of employment. We've sent a request for an evaluation copy. It's $100 per client. Bryce _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
