Apache Wave is a software framework for real-time collaborative editing online. Google Inc. originally developed it as Google Wave.[1] It was announced at the Google I/O conference on May 27, 2009.[2] [3] Google Wave is a web-based computing platform and communications protocol designed to merge key features of communications media such as email, instant messaging, wikis, and social networking.[4] Communications using the system can be synchronous or asynchronous. Software extensions provide contextual spelling and grammar checking, automated language translation,[3] and other features.[5]
Apache Wave is a software framework for real-time collaborative editing online. Google Inc. originally developed it as Google Wave.[1] It was announced at the Google I/O conference on May 27, 2009.[2] [3] Google Wave is a web-based computing platform and communications protocol designed to merge key features of communications media such as email, instant messaging, wikis, and social networking.[4] Communications using the system can be synchronous or asynchronous. Software extensions provide contextual spelling and grammar checking, automated language translation,[3] and other features.[5]
Imagine a world where everybody can share their knowledge not hindered by edit conflicts and software that is hard to understand; bringing Google Wave technology to Wikipedia.
Apache Wave, where Wave development happens at Apache. Wave is a rich, distributed, near-real-time collaboration platform, which allows users to work together in new and exciting ways. The main sub project of Apache Wave is "Wave in a Box", a stand alone wave server and rich web client that can serve as a Wave reference implementation. As the project grows we hope to expand to offer other Wave related goodies as well.
Walkaround is a variant of Wave, based on the Apache Wave code base, that runs on App Engine. Walkaround can import waves from wave.google.com to allow users to keep working with their data regardless of the future of wave.google.com. (The import feature is still experimental.)