Hi Daniel,

I think depending on your shoe box this could work. Let me rephrase where I see 
this going.


Option 1: if your shoebox document is a custom binary store, XML document or 
anything of that nature, then this will NOT work.  Sync'ing something like that 
is really hard.  You might find success using a modified 'rsync' protocol, but 
even then there are going to be risks.  Oh another good example of this would 
be git, svn or cvs.  They only really work well with simple text documents, 
therare not that I know of that will merge (for example) a word document.  They 
basically treat them as large binary blobs.

Option 2:  Each shoebox is a self contained core data database.  This could 
work.  The idea behind ERSync was to leverage the change notification system to 
create very small delta packages between the EOF legacy and the mobile core 
data system.

Hope that helps,
David


On 2011-11-20, at 9:49 PM, Daniel Beatty wrote:

> Greetings Amy, Dave, Chuck, anyone,
> Does any one have any idea if ERSync could be expanded to handle 
> synchronization to include document based applications?  The shoe-box 
> applications seems to be the current model for both the iOS and Mac.   I was 
> struck by a sort of revelation this weekend to construct a kind of shoe-box 
> ERSync Cocoa app with scriptable capabilities that supplies subclass of 
> NSAtomicStore.  The premise is that the shoe-box app would serve kind of the 
> same function as the ERSync framework does in the WO app except for the Cocoa 
> app.   The NSAtomicStore subclass would enable the user to call up the 
> document (or shoe-box app) via their own app.  The ERSync Cocoa shoe-box app 
> would give the user a sort of user level admin capability over all ERSync 
> enabled apps on their Mac (kind of a D2W for the shoe-box).   
> 
> The gotcha came when I considered the possibility of a document-based app 
> using the NSAtomicStore subclass.  Any ideas?  I will try at first under the 
> presumption that document-based apps don't exists.   I am not sure how long 
> that fairy will stay away for, I forgot to give him Guinness. 
> 
> V/R,
> 
> 
> Dan Beatty, ABD
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> Texas Tech University
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> On Jul 24, 2011, at 12:35 PM, Amy Worrall wrote:
> 
>> Great, thanks. I'll check it out.
>> 
>> Amy
>> 
>> On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 8:05 PM, Pascal Robert <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Le 2011-07-24 à 12:02, Amy Worrall a écrit :
>>> 
>>>> Hi all!
>>>> 
>>>> Could anyone point me to where I can find ERSync? I've heard about it
>>>> (i.e. that it's good for writing backends for iPhone apps), but I
>>>> don't know anything more about it than that.
>>> 
>>> https://github.com/davidAtGVC/RemoteSync/tree/master/WebObjects/ERSync
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