Re: Directory DB Approaches
Re: Directory DB Approaches
- Subject: Re: Directory DB Approaches
- From: Alexander Hartner <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2007 02:29:53 +0000
Please take a look at http://www.addressbookserver.com where you will
find ABxLDAP (AddressBook -> LDAP) and Address Book Server
(AddressBook <-> DB).
Looking forward to hear from you
Alex
On 17 Dec 2007, at 14:57, gotWoody wrote:
Hi folks,
I'm interested in your opinion concerning a good approach to the
following problem:
A database of related customer records and their purchases.
It needs to be accessed by 2..10 clients simultaneously.
It should leverage Address Book, allowing for shared contacts that
are common to the organization, while the individual user of the
account can also have their personal, non-shared contacts in their
addressbook.
Ideally, i could also utilize CoreData.
Some approaches that I'm in the process of reading about:
- Using an Open Directory server to store the shared contacts,
accessible via Addressbook through the LDAP connector. But what
about the related tables that wouldn't be in the LDAP directory
(purchases, transactions etc), how would they synchronize?
- Using Sync Services. The documentation seems to imply that it's
for syncing one person's data with multiple devices and does so
via .Mac for remote machines, but someone wrote a Google Calendar <-
> iCal sync that doesn't seem to require .Mac (or maybe it does).
If Sync Services requires everyone to hve the same .Mac account,
that woudn't work.
- Design my own implementation of a customer database, and then use
the cocoa Address Book functions to synchronize the local
addressbook with my customer database. Still, how then might the
multiple local storages be synchronized among client workstations?
Thanks for any insights, or redirects to FAQs or whatever might have
some additional leads to follow.
Woody
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