Documentation

Funambol provides several types of documentation for users and developers. This includes user and admin guides for Funambol v6, the Funambol Device Management Framework and additional materials to help people build mobile applications and services using Funambol.

Funambol v6.5
General
Release Notes (PDF, 299K)
Data Synchronization Server
Funambol Installation and Configuration Guide
Funambol Test Drive Guide
Funambol Administration Guide
Clients and Plug-ins
Java ME Client User Guide
Outlook Plug-in User's Guide
Windows Mobile Plug-in User Guide
iPod Plug-in User's Guide
Connector Software
OpenXchange Connector Installation Guide
Other Software, Projects and Information
Funambol Device Management Server (v3.5)
DM Server Administration Guide
DM Server DM Demo User's Guide
DM Server SCTS Testing Guide
DM Server Developer Guide
Other Information
Product Data Sheet
The SyncML Book
Community Projects
Older versions of Funambol (ObjectWeb)
Funambol Wiki (ObjectWeb)
Funambol Open Source Project Social Contract
Funambol Community Programs
Code Sniper Program
Phone Sniper Program
Community Contributed
blog entry on Creating a Simple Funambol Connector
updated blog entry on Creating a New Funambol Connector
exceptionally detailed progression of blog entries that provides assessments, descriptions, how-tos for many pieces of Funambol

More docs
How to's
HOW TO build a connector
HOW TO Build Funambol DS Server
HOW TO make a SyncML request to Funambol DS Server
HOW TO Integrate the Funambol Source Code into Eclipse
HOW TO implement a simple Device Manager adapter in the Symbian S60 devices to interact with Funambol DM server (by Nokia)
Find more docs in the Funambol Wiki...
Presentations
Developing Open Source Mobile Messaging and Sync Apps for iPhone vs. Android, iPhone Developer Summit, NYC, March 2008 (PDF)
The Mobile Application Server, JBoss World 2006, Las Vegas, NV, USA (PDF)
Integrating the Sync4j Data Synchronization Server, ObjectWeb CON 2006, Paris, France (PDF)
Developing mobile applications with Tomcat and Sync4j, ApacheCon 2005, Stuttgart, Germany (PDF)
Developing Mobile J2ME(tm) Applications With Sync4j and SyncML, JavaOne 2005, July 2005, San Francisco (PDF)
Papers on Funambol
SyncML and its Java Implementation Sync4j by David Buchmann
Enhancing Sync4j - An Open Source SyncML Project by Chintan Shah