A P2P Personal Productivity Suite

Abstract

The main goal behind this Final Year Project is to develop a Personal Information Management (PIM) application called P2P Productivity Suite. This will permit its users to access and modify their personal data stored in the PIM' s underlying data source from a number of diverse devices. Additionally, this system offers offline functionality. The P2P Productivity Suite will support four different modes which include Mail, Contacts, Calendar and Tasks. Whenever a peer running the P2P Productivity Suite connects to a network such as the Internet, it will discover other peers belonging to the same user with whom s/he can connect directly, thus forming a peer-to-peer architecture. All the peers connected over a P2P structure are of equal importance and therefore any one of them can initiate a synchronization session. Peers participating in a synchronization session will synchronize their underlying data source with each other. In other words, any modifications such as update, deletion or creation of a data item performed while a peer was offline will be synchronized to the other user peers as soon as the peer gets online and connects directly to other user peers that are currently online.