API's for calendar/contacts and tasks

[rchicone]

Do you have an API for third party developers that can access calendar, contacts or tasks (PIM)?

[KevinH]

Yes. All the server commands(user and admin) including access to all the data is available via SOAP. See the source docs in ZimbraServer/docs/soap*.txt for more information.

[rchicone]

Thanks so much. Sorry I didn't look harder.

[liyingchang]

Just to understand your architecture a bit better, is the following correct:

web client -- AJAX --> tomcat server (JSP) -- XML/SOAP --> mailbox server/LDAP server -- ?? --> Zimbra MTA

? and the 3rd party client developers would use the XML/SOAP interface to invoke all server functions.

Thanks !

[KevinH]

Originally Posted by liyingchang

Just to understand your architecture a bit better, is the following correct:

web client -- AJAX --> tomcat server (JSP) -- XML/SOAP --> mailbox server/LDAP server -- ?? --> Zimbra MTA

? and the 3rd party client developers would use the XML/SOAP interface to invoke all server functions.

Thanks !

WebBrowser -->(1) Tomcat -->(2) LDAP/MySQL/Message Store

1) SOAP over HTTP via Browser's XmlHttpRequest

2) JNDI, JDBC, File access


So (1) is the SOAP interface which is where we expsose the API that is used for all server communication. Outlook, Webclient, 3rdParty, etc.

Admin Guide has a good pic of this:

http://www.zimbra.com/pdf/Zimbra%20Admin%20OS.pdf

[liyingchang]

THANKS !! that admin guide has so much info about I am looking for. Now I vaguely remember reading from some where about "C, C# and other language support for XML/SOAP". Does that ring a bell ? if I understand SOAP correctly, shouldn't it be language independant ?

Thanks!!

[liyingchang]

ok, this is what I mean:

"Inbound" applications to submit tasks, schedule meetings, etc. At present, such bindings are in the form of XML/SOAP network interfaces to the Zimbra Collaboration Server, but we also encourage the development of generic application developer kits (API libraries) for invoking Zimbra services from Java, PHP, Python, C/C++, C#, and so on.

http://www.zimbra.com/community/developer_zone.html

Also, I think I understand that the web client uses the AJAX technology which involves HTML/JavaScript/XML/SOAP. Do you use anything else, JSP for example, to limit the server implementation to be Java only ?

[KevinH]

Originally Posted by liyingchang

Also, I think I understand that the web client uses the AJAX technology which involves HTML/JavaScript/XML/SOAP. Do you use anything else, JSP for example, to limit the server implementation to be Java only ?

We use a couple JSP pages to load the Javascript but the client app once running in the browser is 100% Javascript.