From an Initiative to a De Facto Standard

SyncML is intended to be a primary mobile application enabler beyond simple Internet access from mobile devices. It is intended to enable data synchronization between a diverse set of computing devices, including mobile handheld devices, mobile phones, personal computers, and network servers. It is designed to be transport agnostic and extensible such that it can work with a variety of network transports. It is designed to accommodate emerging data standards. It is anticipated to span application domains from personal information management applications to mobile business applications.

One key element of SyncML is that it is a message-based specification. Message-based specifications have been successful ...

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