Re: [NTLK] Java Sync?

From: Victor Rehorst (victor_at_newtontalk.net)
Date: Tue Oct 08 2002 - 07:29:30 EDT

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Justin Miller wrote:
> I was just thinking, and with all the talk about new Syncing programs
> wouldnt our best efforts be to write the program in java?
>
> If we used java it would work on any system that supports java. Windows,
> Mac OS X, Linux...
>
> I dont know how well java supports serial connections but i know it
> supports TCP/IP connections well.

Java's serial support is bad IIRC. I don't think it even exists for the Mac.
The problem with writing in Java is that we all want to sync to different
PIMs that have different formats (eg. MS Outlook does *not* use vCalendar/iCal).

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