Synchronisation Mozilla Thunderbird Lightning

There is no project to sync Egroupware and Mozilla, though Egroupware and Thunderbird both support some common protocols. Also Funambol has a client program to Sync a Mozilla calendar using SyncML (http://www.egroupware.org/index.php?page_name=sync&lang=&wikipage=SyncML) which is supported by Egroupware, though untested. It is possible to write a xml-rpc or soap plugin for mozilla for syncing, though no projects have started yet. See below for more information.

Product	Protocol	Status				Notes
Built-in	iCal/LDAP	*	*
Sync4j	SyncML	*

Built-in

iCal

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Successfully sync my mozilla calender from egroupware. But not able to update the egroupware calender - two way sync not working

http://forum.egroupware.org/viewtopic.php?t=28773

LDAP

Mozilla does not support writting to an LDAP database, so only read access is supported.

Funambol plugin for lightning

Download

http://www.funambol.com/opensource/downloads.html or https://addons.mozilla.org/nl/thunderbird/addon/8616 See also: http://www.egroupware.org/index.php?page_name=wiki&wikipage=SyncMLFunambol

Report

It seems to work rather well, synchronizes calendar, tasks and addresslist.

xml-rpc/soap

Egw provides a SOAP interface, that means you can call via the SOAP protocol quite a lot of functions of Egw (exactly the same ones as via the XMLRPC protocol if I am right). And Mozilla also provides a basic library system that allow you to do interact from javascript to remote webservice via SOAP. see

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/webservices/ and there is even an oreilly book about it: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascript/synd/2002/08/30/mozillasoapapi.html?page=1

So combined, this means that you can design html pages for Mozilla in which you use javascript to call functions of Egw. It is a methodology that nowadays is selled under the hype word AJAX.. So if you are very handy with javascript you could reproduce the google calendar interface but have it working with you Egw server