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Bug 341970 - Create a Mail / Calendar connector structure
Summary: Create a Mail / Calendar connector structure
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: z_Archived
Classification: Eclipse Foundation
Component: Mylyn (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows Vista
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: 0.9   Edit
Assignee: Alvaro Sanchez-Leon CLA
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Reported: 2011-04-05 18:54 EDT by Alvaro Sanchez-Leon CLA
Modified: 2012-01-24 17:33 EST (History)
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Description Alvaro Sanchez-Leon CLA 2011-04-05 18:54:22 EDT
Provide an extension point structure to allow Mail Calendar extensions
Comment 1 Steffen Pingel CLA 2011-04-06 05:57:59 EDT
What is the scope of the mail and calendaring support, i.e. what kind of functionality would these connectors provide?
Comment 2 Alvaro Sanchez-Leon CLA 2011-04-06 07:48:15 EDT
There is a need to provide mail/canlendar services with different settings e.g. Outlook, SMTP/Vcalender, mailto/Vcanlendar, etc..

SMTP may require specific corporate server addresses, 

So the idea is to provide one generic for open source e.g. mailto/Vcalendar
and leave the other possibilities opened for specific needs but establishing an interface to treat them the same way.
Comment 3 Steffen Pingel CLA 2011-04-06 16:20:57 EDT
That sounds interesting. I would like to understand how that fits into the framework and what kind of use cases these connectors would support in R4E. I have added an item to the agenda for tomorrow's meeting to discuss this.
Comment 4 Steffen Pingel CLA 2011-04-12 15:30:57 EDT
Can we keep all of this in the R4E namespace for now? I think if we later generalize the code it is much more likely to move to the o.e.m.commons project since there is some potential for reuse across all sub-projects. 

Unfortunately the current name "notifications" is already associated with the desktop notifications API. Would it be possible to choose another name for the this framework. Maybe something related to messages or events would work, e.g. org.eclipse.mylyn.reviews.r4e.messages or org.eclipse.mylyn.reviews.r4e.events.
Comment 5 Alvaro Sanchez-Leon CLA 2011-05-24 14:03:20 EDT
as discussed during a previous mylyn meeting, we can keep the name "notifications" for now.
We can re-open the discussion before merging the functionality.

this is now fixed.