At some point in the development of a plug-in, you'll likely want to allow the user to configure something. In this blog post we will give you an overview of how you can manage such things.
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Some weeks ago, we have released the Zarafa WebApp 1.0. It was a very cool experience to work with 15 WebApp co-Zarafians on feedback from many people in the ecosystem. I would like to share some thoughts with you about plug-ins....
Being able to search quickly in your email is really important for users these days. To do this, you either have to have a very small amount of data, or you need an index over your data. This sounds simple since there are a lot of indexing technologies already out there, but quite some care is needed to make sure that you are offering the right kind of performance in the right places....
Groupware applications are almost always I/O-bound; most highly-loaded servers are doing I/O most of the time, leaving all your 8 cores of the CPU just idling waiting for data to process. This is true for Zarafa as well. In fact, load simulations on SSD still show the bottleneck to be at the I/O layer, even though this doesn't happen until you have thousands of users pounding a server with requests and sending and receiving over 50 emails per second....
@philippn no, the Summercamp grew to big for a real community event, so we decided to split and make it two.