Open Mobile Sync: Open-Source Mobile Enterprise Data Synchronization
TS-5957

As wireless network bandwidth and mobile device capabilities increase, the demand for secure mobile access to enterprise data is rapidly growing. Enterprise data boundaries are getting blurred, and there is a growing need to develop secure applications that enable mobile corporate users to "fit the enterprise in their pocket."

Today mobile service providers are deploying custom proprietary solutions to enable their customers to synchronize mobile data with their enterprise information systems (EISs). The lack of a common platform results in solutions that often fail to meet their time-to-market requirements, due to the complexity of supporting multiple devices, the need to support online and offline modes, and so on.

Open Mobile Sync is a standards-based open-source mobile synchronization platform for rapid development of custom data synchronization solutions. The Sun Java System Mobile Enterprise Platform is based on the Open Mobile Sync project. The platform provides a Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition (J2ME platform) client synchronization API based on Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) Data Synchronization (OMA DS), a SyncML engine running on the GlassFish project, and a Universal Data Connector (UDC) framework based on Java API for XML Web Services (JAX-WS) and the Content Repository for Java technology API (JCR).

This session discusses Open Mobile Sync: its architecture, deployment scenarios, development tools, and the like and includes a brief primer on the OMA Data Synchronization and OMA Data Management standards. In addition, it presents examples showing how to write J2ME technology-based SyncML clients as well as back-end connectors to access EIS data by using UDCs. It concludes by showing a live demonstration of data synchronization with an enterprise back end.