DBus for Generic Data Access Methods?
Marcel Holtmann
marcel at holtmann.org
Mon Jan 29 19:38:21 CET 2007
Hi Jim,
> I've been reading about the idea of generic access to a data store
> for configuration information but was wondering if there are plans to
> have generic access to actual data. There are two reasons why I
> believe this is key to development of a system like OpenMoko:
> * It allows developers to generate drop-in replacements for
> existing functionality (don't like the existing contacts
> manager and want to write your own? As long as you meet the
> interface contract then no problems)
> * It allows applications to obtain data (and also update it, of
> course) without needing to know much about the external
> program(s) out there. More importantly, it allows
> applications to obtain data from arbitrary providers
what you are looking for is the Evolution Data Server and the Camel
library. For small systems using D-Bus you have the Embedded Evolution
Data Server and also Tinymail.
http://projects.o-hand.com/eds
http://www.tinymail.org/
Regards
Marcel
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