March 2010
Intermediate to advanced
304 pages
8h 23m
English
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So, What Exactly Is Google Wave?
Simply stated, Google Wave is a real-time communication and collaboration platform that incorporates several types of web technologies, including email, instant messaging (IM), wiki, online documents, and gadgets. In more technical terms, Google Wave is a platform based on hosted XML documents (called waves) supporting concurrent modifications and low-latency updates.[5]
Google Wave represents a new approach aimed at improving communication and collaboration through the use of a combination of established and emerging web technologies. Google generally describes Google Wave as a platform and, in a broader context, as a set of three interdependent layers:
- Product layer
The Google Wave product is the web application people use to access and edit waves. It’s an HTML5 app built on Google Web Toolkit that includes a rich-text editor and other functions such as desktop drag-and-drop (which, for example, lets you drag a set of photos right into a wave). Throughout the remainder of the book, I will refer to this product as the Google Wave Client.
- Platform layer
Google Wave can also be considered a platform with a rich set of open APIs that allow developers to build new extensions that work inside waves and to embed waves in other web services.
- Protocol layer
The Google Wave protocol is the underlying format for storing and sharing waves and includes the “live” concurrency control that allows edits to be reflected instantly across users and services. The protocol ...
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