Design and implementation of a platform independent synchronization using WCF web-services

Abstract

The ability to provide isolate or standalone device data synchronization to the remote users is becoming more and more challenging for organizations nowadays. Several years ago, the term network was explicitly termed for wired-network but nowadays the accessibility of very high-speed broadband networks, small sized mobile devices, and easy carrying tabs have reduced dependency over wired-networks. Through wireless connectivity, we can now access web applications literally from anywhere to everywhere. It is very important for the businesses to ensure that their users are able to access the same information from their mobile devices which is updated at the office servers. The focus in this paper is to reduce data storage while performing data synchronization between server to client and client to server. For this there is a need to transfer less data between two entities. This can be achieved by combining Timestamps and Database Triggers for handle server to client synchronization, similarly Boolean flag and logs for handling client to server synchronization.