This explanation of a conduit is exactly what I was asking about. And I'm =
not suggesting that someone stop development on pilot-DB to work on this. =
I was really just fishing for information as to weather anyone was working =
or thinking about working on this.
Currently I use Think-DB with DB-Sync, but I like some of the pilot-DB bett=
er than Think's
As to a CVS type conduit, I can get to this type of data almost as easily a=
s a standard Access DataBase.
Larry
>>> Oliver Goetz <oli...@we...> 11/09/01 05:27PM >>>
Hans Ajiet Holtkamp wrote:
> I am not sure what a conduit is, but if
> you are referring to an Access/Excel
As far as I understand it, a conduit is a piece of
software that manages the synchronization of data
when a Palm is synced with the desktop computer
(loke AvantGo Connect for example).
The Palm desktop software does this for the built-in
applications of the Palm (Calendar, Address Book, etc.),
but for proprietary software this synchronization
ability has to be provided as such a conduit.
Of course the DB databases are already synched to
the Backup directory on the PC if they have been
changed, but by default the syncing software can
only do that for a whole database because it has
no knowlegde about the data inside it.
The tricky part for such a conduit would be to
manage the synchronization on a per-record basis,
so that you can modify records on the Palm as
well as on the desktop database application.
The data of these two modified databases would
then have to be merged together to represent
the changes that were made on either side.
This could only be done if the conduit had a means
to decide which records have been changed on
Palm or on Desktop side, and in case the same
record has been changed on both sides, which is
the valid version (this can be very tricky, because
one can think of different scenarios where
different strategies could be applied).
Personally, I'd rather see something more generic
than an Access conduit, simply because I don't use
Access. But I'm not sure how such a solution could
look like. Maybe something that can use CSV-Files
on the PC side or a Java based conduit which would
allow to use JDBC to connect to any relational
database rather than a proprietory solution which
only works on one specific database system.
(Or maybe ODBC could be used for database access
on the desktop computer).
Cheers,
Oliver
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