This report describes a bachelor thesis work performed at the cloud storage company CloudMe in Linköping, Sweden. The storage service provided by CloudMe allows users to access their files seamlessly from multiple units at the same time. In the cloud there is storage provided for contacts, calendar and e-mail, which is data nowadays normally used by smart phones.Exchange ActiveSync is a protocol developed by Microsoft which, among much more, provides functionality to synchronize the previously described data. This protocol is supported by the smart phone developers and the ability to synchronize over the exchange protocol is implemented in products by default. Due to this fact it would be preferable to implement support for synchronization from CloudMe to phones over this protocol. Therefore a decision was made to create a proxy server which handles communication with clients (smart phones) over Exchange ActiveSync and talks with CloudMes SOAP-based open API to extract the needed data. With the help of this server a user would be able to synchronize the described data between different phones and tablets, independently of label and model and would never have to worry about loss of data.The purpose of this bachelor thesis work was therefore to design and implement such a proxy server, so that clients would be able to connect, through the standard support for exchange in smart phones,and synchronize data between phones and the cloud. The report describes the methods used when designing the project and also the problems that occurred during the process.

I det här arbetet har jag undersökt möjligheten att synkronisera lagrad kalenderdata mellan två olika system. Mitt arbete beskriver ett API, som i ena änden kommunicerar med Xcerion Baxide-Web Services, och i den andra änden med en mobil enhet med implementerat stöd för Exchange ActiveSync (t.ex. en iPhone eller Android). Med hjälp av Exchange ActiveSync-protokollet kan man synkronisera bland annat kalender, kontakter, e-post, anteckningar och påminnelser mellan flera klienter genom en Exchange Server. Dock hamnade all implementation utöver kalendersynkronisationen av Exchange ActiveSync redan från början utanför examensarbetets ramar. Microsoft tillhandahåller en mycket detaljerad dokumentation över Exchange ActiveSyncprotokollet. Dessutom, bland annat med hjälp av Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 och programmetWireShark kunde trafiken från en redan fungerande implementation av protokollet avlyssnas. Kommunikationen mellan en klient och en Exchange Server kan antingen ske över HTTP eller HTTPS där data transporteras kodat i WBXML. Av säkerhetsskäl är det dock rekommenderat att en Exchange Server inte tillåter trafik över HTTP. Innan själva implementationen analyserades protokollets struktur samt vilka nödvändiga metoder som behövdes för kalendersynkronisationen. För varje unik klient lagras en synkroniseringsfil, innehållandes information om synkroniserad data, samt en cachefil med specifik data som en Exchange Server förväntas cachelagra. De mest tidskrävande problemen, att till exempel sätta upp testmiljö och att få implementationen att avkoda WBXML data, uppstod innan själva implementationen av Exchange ActiveSync-protokollet. Själva protokollet bestod av problem som möjligheter till alternativa implementationer och en stor mängd detaljarbete.

The last couple of years the use of mobile devices such as mobile phones and PDAs has increased tremendously. Most of the these devices have their own protocols for synchronising data and this has given rise to a need for a standard synchronisation protocol, SyncML. This thesis compares this protocol against the existing ones. The comparison shows that the preferred choice is SyncML. Also an application using SyncML has been developed. The application's task is to synchronise the calendar on a mobile phone with a database on a computer.

<p>The last couple of years the use of mobile devices such as mobile phones and PDAs has increased tremendously. Most of the these devices have their own protocols for synchronising data and this has given rise to a need for a standard synchronisation protocol, SyncML. This thesis compares this protocol against the existing ones. The comparison shows that the preferred choice is SyncML. </p><p>Also an application using SyncML has been developed. The application's task is to synchronise the calendar on a mobile phone with a database on a computer.</p>