Welcome to Manta!

Manta is a simple synchronization system that is designed to make local databses easily accessible anywhere.

Manta is composed of three separate projects that work together:

• Upload, which sends data from a local SQL database up to an accessible server,
• Store, a JSON-based REST store that suports incremental synchronization, and
• Sync, an agent which syncronizes the remote data to a local system for offline access.

Multiple Sync implemenations can be provided, depending on the source platform. In particular, though, the project provides:

• Manta Sync for Android, an Android ContentProvider that transparently provides native access to your remote data.

Manta is designed to be easily reusable for a variety of situations where you need local SQL data made available on remote devices or browsers, without requiring you to re-invent the wheel each time. Manta currently powers Simple MFI, an application for microfinance loan officers, which gives them access to all their client data (usually held in an on-premise MIS database) on a low-cost Android phone.

More information about each Manta component can be found in the README in each directory, and on the main project page, at:

https://github.com/kevgibbs/manta/wiki

Copyright (C) 2011 Kevin Gibbs and The Manta Project

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

 http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.