ACAP Resources

There are a few main places where more information can be found:

Local to this site

The ACAP Code Project

Link: http://acap.jdarx.info/content/acap-code

The ACAP code project provides samples of ACAP code for use by the various dataset implementors

ACAP Standards Page

Link: http://acap.jdarx.info/content/acap-standards

Contains links to the various ACAP standards in their most recent available versions.

Dave Cridland's site

Link: http://dave.cridland.net/acap/

Contents:

• Notes and tutorial
• Infotrope
• Server Design Problems
• ACAP PHP browser

This is where the most easily accessible information is. Where the IETF site (below) specifies the standards, Dave's site is the tutorials, tips, and tricks site. The link to his (beta version, but work continues) ACAP Server, InfoTrope, will be almost as useful as his Tutorial. Both of these should be read. Dave also says he has a hack for SquirrelMail (in PHP) which allows it to work with ACAP, but this isn't on his site yet.

ACAP Standards List

Link: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/archive/mailbox.php?mailbox=archive.ietf-acap&startThread=432&threadsToDo=15

Contents:ACAP standards mailing list

There may also be a few who are interested in the ACAP standards mailing list. The archives are linked at the side, and information on subscription is on the IETF site above.

Please note that most of the recent traffic is Spam; you'll have to go back into the archives to find discussion.

Alexei Melnikov's ACAP stuff

Link: http://www.melnikov.ca/

Contents: ACAP Explorer, etc

Alexei Melnikov's ACAP Explorer (M$ Windows) is buried somewhere in this page, along with some other interesting bits and pieces.

Dead Links

The following links used to work. I managed to get most of the CMU ASG stuff from archive.org, but the rest appear to just be dead. I put them here so that if anyone has any information on them, they can send it to me.

CMU ACAP Project

Link: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/acap/

Contents: Partially out of date links, contacts, notes, and the like

Notes: These are the people who originally started the ACAP project. They wrote the other ACAP server, which is currently unmaintained. It is written in SML. However, they have some interesting information there, and it could be useful.

ACAP vs. LDAP

Link: http://www.washington.edu/imap/listarch/1997/msg00236.html

A post to an IMAP mailing list discussing some of the differences between LDAP and ACAP, and why ACAP exists.

IMAP Products Database

Link: http://www.imap.org/products/database.php

Contents: Search for ACAP products

The IMAP products database, while primarily intended to be a database of products which support IMAP, also contains an ACAP support field which could be used to search for products which support ACAP. At this stage in ACAP's progress, it may be not wonderfully useful, but as time goes on, it will become more so.