Calendaring

Calendaring is one of the big issues of the next years. Email connects people, calendars make people meet!

So these days we find tonns of calendar applications and platform: iPhone integrates with Apple Calendar Server, Exchange with windows mobile, Blackberry has its own server... all different platforms.

Caldav aim is to create interoperability between them.

Caldav

Caldav is an access protocolo for events, tasks and meeting.

CalDAV : calendar = IMAP : email

Caldav is built on top of HTTP, so you can see a caldav repository even with your browser

Caldav is trendy: Apple and Google use caldav for their calendar servers!

CalDAV4j

Caldav4j is the first java library for caldav.

It supports a great part of RFC and has a flexible and easy way to query for calendar items stored on server.

It's compliance to the standards is tested with junits, and periodically it's verified against some caldav server implementation

Learn a lot

Joining us you will learn:

• how to read and implement an RFC protocol, discussing with other people on ietf mailing lists
• to write tests before coding, avoid regressions and ensuring RFC compliance

But above all, you'll dive into all the calendaring issues, that are a fast growing market.