20k+ lines of wave protocol code released today (wave federation day)

http://code.google.com/p/wave-protocol/source/browse/#hg/src/org/waveprotocol/wave/model

by enki • 17 years ago

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Oompa2• 17 years ago

Awesome. Maybe someone will make a good desktop client for Wave, which if you ask me, is needed for it to replace email.

stevejohnson• 17 years ago

I agree. Wave is complex enough that people are going to want to use their OS's native interface with it, for both usability and speed reasons.

Oompa2• 17 years ago

Email isn't that complex, and I still prefer using Mail.app to Gmail's web interface.

zacharypinter• 17 years ago

I'll be happy with a good emacs mode.

enki• 17 years ago

http://code.google.com/p/wave-protocol/wiki/Installation instructions just went online

myared• 17 years ago

Interesting. Is this at the point where one could just buy a slice, run a server, and play around with the client or is Google holding some piece back until they open up their implementation to the public?

oomkiller• 17 years ago

The most I've been able to achieve is to get the server running with Openfire (but it would probably work with ejabberd too). I can verify that it is connected to the external components part of Openfire, so I believe the server is setup correctly. I have also been able to get the basic example client they include running, but it did take some hacking, and I have not been able to successfully connect to my server yet, much less work with waves. I don't see ANY web-gui code in any of this, so I seriously doubt it's what you're looking for. If you want to setup the reference server and play around with it, you can now do that, anything else is iffy at best.

Bjoern2• 17 years ago

I hear people saying oh great that will replace eMail.. don't think so. M$ and others tried that and failed, why should it be different now? Google will try to keep a crucial piece of the pie like M$ does with the .NET platform.

Bjoern2• 17 years ago

You can downvote me to infinity. Google is a company and as such it is only interested in earning money, everything else is second.

schwanksta• 17 years ago

Pretty sure it's because you wrote "M$", not what you said about G¢¢gle.

Loic• 17 years ago

Is it me or 20k+ lines for a protocol implementation sounds like an over engineered system which is bound to fail?

20k+ lines of wave protocol code released today (wave federation day)

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