Re: [Java-gnome-developer] Screenshots of Contacts

[Andrew C. <an...@op...>]

On Wed, 2005-23-02 at 21:20 -0300, Joao Victor wrote:
> I'm making a little application, a simple "contacts manager",

Someone suggested LDAP back ends; I'd like to proffer another suggestion
near and dear to my heart:

Right now, Evolution is gaining momentum to be the centralized personal
data manager for a GNOME desktop. Lots :) of people use it.... but the
evolution codebase is *so* complicated (I've been studying it for years)
[not to mention it being in C] that it is very difficult for people to
make casual contributions, and so there are a number of itches that I
really want scratched but can't quite get there to do.

What would be brilliant is if we managed to get a Java language binding
around evolution-data-server.

That way, people like jvic could write "better" front-ends for the
aspects of the contact system which interest them, but benefit from
leveraging the data in the existing back-end (which in turn already has
the logic to reach out to other data stores like LDAP directories).

My personal itch at the moment is data loading. I have TONS of data I've
exported from a contact management system we used to use. I can
transform and clean up the data using something like Perl, but I have no
elegant way to load that data into e-d-s where I want it. A
libevolution-data-server-java (eek) binding would fit the bill
perfectly, allowing me to programmatically load data... without having
to write my own contacts manager :)

AfC
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