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Apache Wave, formerly Google Wave, is a extensible open source, real-time collaboration web application created by Google. Development ceased in 2018.

Apache Wave, formerly Google Wave, is a extensible open source, real-time collaboration web application created by Google. Development ceased in 2018.

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How does the live, real-time typing work in Google Wave?

I'm sure Wave doesn't poll the server every millisecond to find out if the other user has typed something... so how can I see what the other person is typing as they type? And without hogging the bandwidth.
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Does operational transformation work on structured documents such as HTML if simply treated as plain text?

The FAQ of Google Wave Protocol says that [HTML] "does not have desirable properties" and that "HTML makes OT (Operational Transforms) difficult if not impossible" [1]. Why is this so? What problems arise if HTML is treated simply as plain text and…
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Do simple things with a Google Wave robot

I wanted to add 3 features to the robot from the tutorial here: http://code.google.com/apis/wave/extensions/robots/python-tutorial.html Before adding all these features, my robot is working as intended. Now the odd features still shows up (with "v2"…
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What Technologies Is Google Wave Using?

What are the technologies employed in building Google Wave? Edit: I have moved and amalgamated the answers into an answer below, rather than here in the question where they were.
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Why does Google Docs operational transformation err on the side of deletion?

Tried out this experiment today: opened two offline editors for a Google document. In one, I bolded the first word. In the second, I deleted it. Regardless of which client I turn on first, the word always ends up deleted. First off, why is this the…
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Google Wave for .Net

Just got my wave sandbox invite today. Does anyone know of a .NET library for google wave? (client and server) I'm a c# programmer, not very familiar with the language that the Google samples are written in. It's very existing can't wait to write…
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wave.getState() returns null

When trying to call wave.getState() in my Google Wave gadget, I get back null (no state object). How can I initialize the Wave state object? I am working in the Wave Sandbox. My ModulePrefs contains the following: …
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Google Wave extension for Programmers and their Code

Sorry if this is well known but Googling for my answer only came up with links about making Google Wave gadgets. My question is, are there any Google Wave gadgets that allow for better collaborative code editing? I mean, I can set the font to fixed…
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Testing Google Wave Gadget outside Google Wave?

I wonder if there is a tool/framework available that supports testing Google Wave Gadgets outside Google Wave. I know these two emulators (1 and 2), but I still always would have to upload my gadget for every debugging run. I am looking for a tool…
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Google Waves - basic structure

Is a wave limited to the sharing of textual information (HTML), or am I correct in assuming that a wave can contain arbitrary data (represented in XML), so long as it also contains the javascript necessary to render it in a meaningful way? I ask…
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Why does Google Wave Operational Transform need annotations?

The operational transform stuff used in Google Wave has a rather curious document format. A document is basically just an xml subset document - characters, start tags and end tags. In addition to that, the document has "annotations", which are…
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Is the architectural model in the Clojure Pedestal framework an operational transform similar to Google Wave?

Reading through the Pedestal presentation (and reading the sample source code) - I see a model based on transforms and operations. Is it true that Pedestal uses operational transformations (look here and here) similar to what was used in Google…
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Google wave robot inline reply

I've been working on my first robot for google wave recently, a vital part of what it does is to insert inline replies into a blip. I can't for the life of me figure out how to do this! The API docs have a function InsertInlineBlip which sounded…
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Any Web or Desktop Apps Out There Like Google Wave?

Are there any existing or upcoming web or desktop apps out there like Google Wave?
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Development team collaboration via Google Wave

I hope I am not repeating any previously asked question. Anyway, so Google Wave is nice and shiny and sounds like a lot of folks(at least at Google I/O :) used it in a useful for work(!) way. I've been beta-testing Google Wave for sometime now, but…
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