Lightning: Sync Calendar Events and Tasks of Oracle Beehive with Thunderbird

Lightning: Sync Calendar Events and Tasks of Oracle Beehive with Thunderbird


Thunderbird syncs only Email data with the Oracle Beehive, if you want to sync Calendar data and Tasks then one has to download the Lightning add-on from the mozilla site.

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/

Lightning is the open-source project for syncing calendar events and tasks (CalDAV) based.

Calendaring Extensions to WebDAV, or CalDAV, is an Internet standard allowing a client to access scheduling  information on a remote server.


After Lightning add-on installation, follow below Configuration steps to sync Thunderbird with Oracle Beehive Server.Separate Beehive plug-ins are not required to configure this.


Basically there are 2 ways to Sync Calendar Events.


1) With out Oracle Beehive Plug-in for Thunderbird.
2) With Oracle Beehive Plug-in for Thunderbird


1) With out Oracle Beehive Plug-in for Thunderbird.


1) Right Click on the Calendar (restart thunderbird after lightning add-on installation) , select New Calendar.

2) Choose on the Network check box.

3) Select Format as CalDAV and Location is the location of the calendar file on the Beehive Server for that specific user. 


https://hostname/caldav/st/home/abc.xyz@ORACLE.COM/calendars/MyCalendar

Replace hostname with the proper server name and abc.xyz is the user name of the Oracle user

4) choose some name to this Calendar,Color (to distinguish calendar events of this with other calendars(GMAIL))

5) After Completion of this configuration, calendar events and tasks will be synced to the Thunderbird from the Oracle Beehive.

All calendar events are populated successfully and color of events are in blue color.


2) With Oracle Beehive Plug-in.


1) Once the lightning add-on is downloaded and installed successfully, Download the latest oracle beehive plug-in from the following site.


http://lightning-oracle.us.oracle.com/mozilla/dist/champion/oracle-beehive-extensions-for-thunderbird-champion-latest.xpi


a) From the settings select Install-addon from the file

 All the Calendar events and tasks are reflected on the Calendar pane of thunderbird.

Configuration: Mozilla Thunderbird with Oracle Beehive Server

How to Configure Thunderbird to receive Emails and Calendar data from Oracle Beehive Server


Oracle Beehive is the next generation of Oracle’s enterprise collaboration technologies.It provides a unified collaboration application and platform comprised of a comprehensive set of integrated Java-based services, offering a new paradigm for enterprise collaboration solutions.

Oracle Beehive unifies common yet typically disjointed collaborative services, such as e-mail, time management, instant messaging, and content management, among others, and delivers them through standard protocol clients, integrated Web services, and familiar desktop tools such as Microsoft Outlook. This unified offering enables teams, individuals, and organizations to more easily collaborate, generate new information, make timely decisions, and, ultimately, take action.


Users can access Oracle Beehive with standard protocol clients based on Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV), Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP), Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP), Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), and Calendaring Extensions to WebDAV (CalDAV), to name a few. Oracle Beehive supports many proprietary and open source clients including Apple Mail, Microsoft Windows WebFolders, Mozilla Thunderbird, and Pidgin, among others.

Using Thunderbird we can connect to Beehive and send/Receive mails,Calendar information,tasks,Addressbook (contacts).

Using Thunderbird we can Send/Receive Emails, but for Calendar data and Addressbook we need to Install 2 Add-ons

1) Oracle Beehive Extensions for Thundrbird (OBET) ---> 
Addressbook CardDav,

2) Lightning  ---> Calendar Information and Tasks.

Configuration:

Tools --> Account Settings

Account Actions --> Add Mail Account  .. fill in the details

Your name : abc
Email address : abc.xyz@oracle.com
Password : Welcome1

Check the Remember Password.

Click Continue button ... during process it displays Manual Configuration button, select this button for configuring Incoming and Outgoing Server host names and ports and Authentication details.

Incoming Server (IMAP) : 
Server Type: IMAP mail Server
Server Name: hostname.com
Port: Default IMAP port (993)
Connection Security :  SSL/TLS
Authentication Method : Normal Password

Outgoing Server (SMTP) :
Description : SMTP Configuration
Server Name: hostname.com
Port: Default SMTP port (465)

Connection Security :  SSL/TLS
Authentication Method : Normal Password

User Name: abc.xyz@oracle.com

IMAP Configuration:

SMTP Configuration :