Synchronization APIs

You can synchronize mobile business objects (MBOs) based on synchronization parameters, for individual MBOs, or as a group, based on the group's synchronization policy.

Note: The loginToSync API is now deprecated. For RBS, call synchronize or beginSynchronize before saving synchronization parameters. After saving the synchronization parameters, call synchronize or beginSynchronize again to retrieve the new values filtered by those parameters. For MBS, call subscribe before saving synchronization parameters.

Changing Synchronization Parameters
Synchronization parameters let an application change the parameters that retrieve data from an MBO during a synchronization session.
Performing Mobile Business Object Synchronization
A synchronization group is a group of related MBOs. A mobile application can have predefined synchronization groups. An implicit default synchronization group includes all the MBOs that are not in any other synchronization group.
Push Synchronization Applications
Clients receive device notifications when a data change is detected for any of the MBOs in the synchronization group to which they are subscribed.
Retrieving Information about Synchronization Groups
The package database class provides the following two methods for querying the synchronized state and the last synchronization time of a certain synchronization group:

Parent topic: Client Object API Usage

Related concepts

Synchronizing

Related tasks

Specifying Synchronization Parameters