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+<concept id="GUID-F23BB1F1-CF90-597F-8410-34AB8B567501" xml:lang="en"><title>PIM
+Subsystem Overview</title><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><conbody>
+<section id="GUID-201D8954-325A-422C-94D3-772274154AF9"><title>Purpose</title> <p>This
+document describes storage, organisation and utility functionalities within
+Symbian platform Personal Information Management (PIM) technology, as defined
+by its subsystems: Application Engines and Application Services. </p> </section>
+<section id="GUID-78706FAF-6F53-4DFD-B77B-BA44C5E087B2"><title>Key Concepts</title> <p> <i>Application
+Engines</i> - provide PIM data storage and manipulation. </p> <p> <i>Application
+Services</i> - provide a collection of utility components.</p> <p> Application
+Engines and Application Services enable user applications to acquire, organise,
+maintain, and retrieve personal information. </p> <p> <i>Subsystem</i> - a
+cohesive group of components within a single technology. </p> <p> <i>Component</i> -
+the smallest unit of architectural significance and the finest grained unit
+of description. </p> </section>
+<section id="GUID-A76EE4BC-565F-4F5E-8943-1F9BE03B4D07"><title>Architectural
+Relationships</title> <p>PIM <xref href="GUID-F43E458D-6650-5BB0-871D-2E4EB1353C48.dita">Application
+Services</xref> technology delivers high-level OS services for storage and
+manipulation of user data (such as a collection of Calendar and Contacts items).
+PIM subsystem components are part of Application Engines and Application Services.
+The Symbian platform Generic Middleware layer contains the following PIM components:
+Alarm Server, Time Zone Server and Help Model. </p> <p>All the components
+are contained between the OS Services layer and the User Interface layer. </p> <p>Key
+clients of these components are licensee applications that use subsystems
+such as Telephony, SyncML and Messaging. </p> <fig id="GUID-5335C9B9-5C4E-5673-AB93-59C921C3AC58">
+<title>PIM Subsystem components are part of the Application Services and Generic
+Middleware layers</title>
+<image href="GUID-1742B2A1-6EC1-5368-919B-362516A5D452_d0e347864_href.png" placement="inline"/>
+</fig> </section>
+<section id="GUID-AEA465F8-77B5-45A6-B5A4-12083A9008F4"><title>Application
+Engines</title> <p>Application Engines provide data storage and manipulation
+for user data. </p><ul>
+<li><p><xref href="GUID-A1227CAE-EE08-5EAF-8D15-81465467C0C0.dita#GUID-A1227CAE-EE08-5EAF-8D15-81465467C0C0/GUID-85D629ED-30D4-5608-A816-07BD375C6A76">Calendar</xref> enables
+management of calendar entries and provides access to calendar stores. The
+CalInterimAPI library is the Calendar data store. </p></li>
+<li><p>The <xref href="GUID-A1227CAE-EE08-5EAF-8D15-81465467C0C0.dita#GUID-A1227CAE-EE08-5EAF-8D15-81465467C0C0/GUID-5F20F757-46F6-5652-AB0F-6B22DBB61111">Contacts
+model</xref> provides a unified interface for managing contact information. </p></li>
+</ul> </section>
+<section id="GUID-D6AC13D1-3C9F-44B2-8691-3F4583E7D805"><title>Application
+Services</title> <p>Application Services are used by multiple application
+engines or applications running on Symbian OS. </p> <ul>
+<li><p><xref href="GUID-F43E458D-6650-5BB0-871D-2E4EB1353C48.dita#GUID-F43E458D-6650-5BB0-871D-2E4EB1353C48/GUID-8BD6CF61-80B6-5869-AB85-F572C590DB30">Alarm
+Server</xref> maintains a queue of system-wide alarms. </p></li>
+<li><p><xref href="GUID-F43E458D-6650-5BB0-871D-2E4EB1353C48.dita#GUID-F43E458D-6650-5BB0-871D-2E4EB1353C48/GUID-32519F1C-429A-59C9-B945-D0B1F81A0AA5">Calendar
+Conversion</xref> converts dates between Gregorian and Chinese lunar calendar
+dates for applications requiring Chinese date support. </p></li>
+<li><p><xref href="GUID-F43E458D-6650-5BB0-871D-2E4EB1353C48.dita#GUID-F43E458D-6650-5BB0-871D-2E4EB1353C48/GUID-6EB921E1-0048-5388-8983-87172763FAB3">Help
+model</xref> manages a collection of files that provide context-sensitive
+help information. </p></li>
+<li><p>Notepad API is a middleware tool that you can write simple text to
+and save for future reference. </p>  </li>
+<li><p>The Calendar Interim Utils2 is an Organizer API that provides methods
+you can use to keep track of your time, extending APIs from Symbian OS. It
+displays the individual days of a given time period. You can add notes and
+memos to these dates to organize your schedule.</p>  </li>
+<li><p>Phonebook APIs provide methods useful in creating a contacts database
+and performing various operations on it. These APIs expand on the Contact
+model.</p>  </li>
+<li><p><xref href="GUID-F43E458D-6650-5BB0-871D-2E4EB1353C48.dita#GUID-F43E458D-6650-5BB0-871D-2E4EB1353C48/GUID-4268D6AA-F468-5461-88A2-D6852D4AC69A">Time
+zone localization</xref> provides localized versions of time zone and city
+names. </p></li>
+<li><p><xref href="GUID-F43E458D-6650-5BB0-871D-2E4EB1353C48.dita#GUID-F43E458D-6650-5BB0-871D-2E4EB1353C48/GUID-D30706E5-7191-5349-A883-C200B73AFED1">Time
+zone server</xref> allows clients to obtain accurate conversion between any
+time expressed in UTC and local time for a user's time zone. </p></li>
+<li><p><xref href="GUID-F43E458D-6650-5BB0-871D-2E4EB1353C48.dita#GUID-F43E458D-6650-5BB0-871D-2E4EB1353C48/GUID-9DFB0954-9CDF-5DAF-BA7A-54A1D64833F7">Versit</xref> is
+a set of utility classes that support the import and export of data that is
+formatted according to a set of standards initially defined by the Versit
+consortium. </p></li>
+</ul><p>There are no strong relationships between any of the subsystem components.
+They are presented as a subsystem because they enable development of a set
+of related applications.</p></section>
+</conbody></concept>
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