A New Wave… Well, in a Box

Organisations that were concerned with the demise of Google’s Wave as a separate product, now have an option as the technology is shaped for further Open Source development by providing “Wave in a Box” over the balance of this year.

The Google Wave Developer Blog announced last week that the server and web client technology will be ‘fleshed out’ into a stand-alone solution or “Wave in a Box”

The Project will include:

an application bundle including a server and web client supporting real-time collaboration using the same structured conversations as the Google Wave system

a fast and fully-featured wave panel in the web client with complete support for threaded conversations

a persistent wave store and search implementation for the server (building on contributed patches to implement a MongoDB store)

refinements to the client-server protocols

gadget, robot and data API support

support for importing wave data from wave.google.com

the ability to federate across other Wave in a Box instances, with some additional configuration

It will be interesting to watch as this develops over the next few months.

Regards,

Glenn Irvine
glenn.irvine@lookingtothecloud.com