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Chapter 5:  Platform-Specific Development Instructions [Table of Contents] Chapter 7:  Writing Synchronization Scripts

Ultralite Developer's Guide

[-] Chapter 6: MobiLink Synchronization

Chapter 6

MobiLink Synchronization

About this chapter

Many UltraLite applications need the ability to synchronize the data in your mobile databases with that contained in one or more central, consolidated databases. This chapter describes the MobiLink technology, which provides a synchronization mechanism for UltraLite applications.

[-] Introduction to MobiLink synchronization
Parts of the synchronization system
Built-in automation and communications fault recovery
Initiating synchronization from an UltraLite application
The synchronization user name
The synchronization process
[-] The consolidated database
Consolidated database server requirements
MobiLink system tables
Creating a consolidated database
How remote tables relate to consolidated tables
[-] Running the MobiLink server
Starting the MobiLink server
Logging MobiLink server actions
Running the MobiLink server as a Windows NT service
[-] Details of the synchronization process
Transactions in the synchronization process
How synchronization failure is handled
How the upload stream is processed
Referential integrity and synchronization
[-] Synchronization on the Palm Computing Platform
[+] HotSync synchronization
[+] TCP/IP synchronization for the Palm Computing Platform
[-] Character-set considerations
Character-set translation during MobiLink synchronization
Controlling ODBC driver character-set translation


Chapter 5:  Platform-Specific Development Instructions [Table of Contents] Introduction to MobiLink synchronization