Fwd: Walkaround -- Wave on App Engine

[Scott Wilson <sc...@gmail.com>]

From wave-dev - may be of interest.

The "shared live objects" (SLOBs) concept is interesting; I had a look at the source but couldn't figure out what transport was being used for synchronisation  (e.g. polling, cometd, websockets...)

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Begin forwarded message:

> From: Yuri Z <ve...@gmail.com>
> Date: 27 October 2011 05:29:22 GMT+01:00
> To: wave-dev@incubator.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Walkaround -- Wave on App Engine
> Reply-To: wave-dev@incubator.apache.org
> 
> Woot, great news! I am really excited!
> 
> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 9:55 PM, Christian Ohler <oh...@google.com> wrote:
> 
>> Fellow wavers,
>> 
>> rather than making waves accessible in Google Docs, which takes too
>> long, we are releasing our code in a form that will hopefully be
>> useful in the short term.  You can find it at
>> https://code.google.com/p/walkaround/ .
>> 
>> From the project description:
>> 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.)
>> 
>> Much of the walkaround code is not specific to Wave, but factored out
>> as a separate, more general collaboration layer that manages shared
>> live objects.  These objects can be modified by multiple clients at
>> the same time, with changes made by any client immediately broadcast
>> to all others.  The Wave application is built on top of this, but the
>> live collaboration layer is flexible enough to support other
>> applications.
>> 
>> Walkaround supports live concurrent rich-text editing, in-line
>> replies, user avatars, wave gadgets, attachments, and we are working
>> on integrating App Engine's full text search service.  For now, it
>> does not support Wave robots, federation, or private replies, but
>> these features could be added.
>> ---
>> 
>> Some of you have been asking about Wave on App Engine; perhaps this is
>> what you are looking for.
>> 
>> The Wave application in walkaround depends very heavily on the Apache
>> Wave code base, but the general collaboration layer is useful
>> independently, so we put it into a separate repository for now.
>> 
>> Happy hacking,
>> Christian.
>>