ActiveSync is synchronization software for Microsoft Windows Mobile handheld devices. ActiveSync governs synchronization between a Windows Mobile device and a desktop computer. A MobiLink provider for ActiveSync governs synchronization to the MobiLink server.

Setting up ActiveSync synchronization for SQL Anywhere clients involves the following steps:

If you use ActiveSync synchronization, synchronization must be initiated from the ActiveSync software. The MobiLink provider for ActiveSync can start dbmlsync or it can wake a dbmlsync that is sleeping as scheduled by a schedule string.

You can also put dbmlsync into a sleep mode using a delay hook in the remote database, but the MobiLink provider for ActiveSync cannot invoke synchronization from this state.

For information about scheduling synchronization, see Scheduling synchronization.