Google Wave will be oriented to concurrent messaging in a collaborative environment, multiple users can be manipulating the same content at the same time and user activity is immediately visible to other participants. As any collaborative environment and architecture, most of the operations will converge when the server receives the concurrent requests; but the real challenge appears making all that an “invisible transparency” to the user without resigning the usability, functionality and performance.

Will be something like this:

Google says: “To kickoff Federation Day, we open sourced two components: 1) the Operational Transform (OT) code and the underlying wave model, and 2) a basic client/server prototype that uses the wave protocol. The OT code is the heart and soul of the collaborative experience in Google Wave and we plan that code will evolve into the production-quality reference implementation”.

You can even take a peak to the source code of this protocol. And you can check also a nice overview.

• Big Google Wave Coming Up – September 29, 2009
• Waving Hard? You Need WaveNut! – November 23, 2009
• Google Phone in Early 2010 – November 18, 2009
• Google Open Sources Its Own Development Programs – November 6, 2009
• Google Wave Federation Begins Testing – Start of SPAM – November 3, 2009

Google Wave: Open Source originally appeared on: Crenk
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