I think the plugin came out before Web Services was properly done in 2.x (mainly for the mobile support I'd imagine). It would be far better if it just used web service calls and not requiring that my moodle page to be the homepage (which looks nasty unless you do some serious customisation of it - not to mention losing the news etc).
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