- They plan to open-source the whole thing -> This gives developers confidence
- They will host the server as well -> This lets developers start easily
- They thought about merging asynchronous + synchronous communication
- They have the notion of robots to automate behaviour
Now I got it: Google Wave is bringing shared memory (represented as a stream of unicode characters plus XML open/close tags) to the browser.
ReplyDeleteThe achilles heel is the data-model. The sample code seems to parse from and serialise to a single sequence. Whenever the sequence changes, it must be reparsed. Therefore, Google Waves is a good choice only for small to medium size data models.