Hello,
First of all sorry for the intrusion, but I think this may be of interest for some of you.
SynCE project's ambitious goal is to provide a mean of synchronising handhelds devices with a (desktop) computer.
By handheld, we mean any portable / embedded / PDA.... device, that needs to synchronize its data with a less mobile computer. (An exemple would be any PDA/PocketPC running Windows CE, or any PDA running Linux, etc...)
The first step of this project is to provide a full (client & server) implementation of Microsoft's RAPI protocol, which is the low-level protocol used in ActiveSync synchronisation. This will allow, when completed : - a Windows CE device to communicate with any (non-Microsoft) computer, - A Linux device to communicate with a Microsoft computer and benefits from the existing tools, - etc, etc...
The second step will be to provide a set of tools to synchronize data with 'standard' open or closed source application : Mozilla, KMail, etc....
Right now, the project is in its early, early stages ( we don't even have an alpha release ! ), but yet there are some bits that allow an implementation of the client part of the RAPI protocol, to query informations (registry, filesystem, databases,...) from a WindowsCE device. One tool (DBBackup) allows a full dump of the databases of the device.
I won't interfere more with the list, and I invite all people interested to have a look on the project page ( http://www.sourceforge.net/projetcs/synce & http://synce.sourceforge.net ) and to subscribe to the mailing-list. We currently are looking for developper, and for testers having mobile devices still under Windows CE (PDA, PocketPC, etc...) and an unix-like desktop environment.
Best regards,
Ludovic LANGE