CalDAV compatibility

[jcobb]

Alfresco is already storing calendar data as ical files in a folder that's accessible via webdav.

Would it be a huge amount of work to add calDAV compatibility?

That way alfresco calendars could be subscribed to from the likes of thunderbird. Neat!

Extending that, could contact data stored as vcards be made available to groupdav clients? There's a groupdav thunderbird client, and there's work on an outlook MAPI client for groupdav too (http://www.zideone.com/). That way all my contacts and calendar could be stored in Alfresco, and accessed both within alfresco and from my desktop mail / calendar / contacts.

Eventually tasks from the workflow system could also be made available via calDAV, allowing jBPM tasks to show up in thunderbird / outlook.

And extending that, a Funambol extension would make all that available on mobile devices…

Any thoughts as to how feasible all that is?

[missshancy]

It seems like calDAV should be something that is included in Alfresco… what are the issues keeping it from being so? I would really love to have this sort of functionality since it would be a work around from the protections placed on calendars in the 3.2 EE. We're dealing with only the creator and administrator account of a site can modify the calendar.