PIM Storage Service Requirements

PIM Storage Service Requirements

- Flat Access
- Categorization by Attributes
- Job Priorities
- Virtual Folders
- Filtering
- Access to parts of objects (mimetypes)
- Change Notification
- Shared Cache
- Asynchronous Access
- Out-of-process service plugins
- Online/Offline state management
- PIM Object Handle
- No hard locks
- Conflict Handling
- Referencing objects (local or on server)
- Capacities and Capabilities of Storage Backends
- URI scheme to identify resources
- Lazy Loading
- Copy-on-write implementation for PIM objects (using snapshots)
- Using Changesets
- Syncing with groupware servers
- Undo
- Resources (storage units)
- Non-global resource activation profiles