Friday, September 03, 2010:
Polish your keyboard, exercise your fingers and stock up on coffee. It's time to start coding and de-coding. Today, Alex North, software engineer of the Google Wave team, announced the "Wave in a Box" project by Google. "Wave in a Box" is a stand-alone and functional open source version of the recently terminated Google Wave. After the termination, the Wave developer community requested the company to release the codes of the Wave project in the Wave protocol forums.
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North says that they have already open-sourced 200,000 lines of code as part of the development of the Wave protocol "to flesh out the existing example Wave server and Web client into a more complete application or Wave in a Box".
According to North, 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
North states, "This project will not have the full functionality of Google Wave as you know it today. However, we intend to give developers and enterprising users an opportunity to run wave servers and host waves on their own hardware."
After Google came out with the announcement to terminate the Wave service, they again said that the Wave will be running now, so that users can extract all the information that they have on the Wave. The Wave service will be finally closed down some time next year. However, no schedule for the release of "Wave in a Box" has been announced by North.
Shabbir Akhtar, EFYTIMES News Network
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