Connectors for Lightning/Sunbird

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As of Lightning/Sunbird version 0.3, there are three supported remote calendar protocols:

1. WCAP (Sun ONE's XML/RPC calendar protocol), which is implemented in Sunbird's mozilla/calendar/providers/wcap sources. It uses plain-old GET and POST commands, and its online specification is at Overview and Commands.

2. iCalendar, which uses the PUT method to send the complete updated calendar to the same Zimbra URL. This could get very inefficient with large calendars, and then Zimbra would have to delete events from the calendar folder to make sure there aren't duplicates. It also uses a PROPFIND, which is rejected by Tomcat.

3. CalDAV, which uses the REPORT method to get a listing of calendar entries, and PUT to update them (neither of which are supported by Tomcat).

I'd suggest that CalDAV is going to be the best in the long run, but with today's technology, WCAP will be easiest to support. Does somebody out there have a pointer to WCAP's specification, to avoid having to reverse-engineer things?

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