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Apache Wave
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software framework for real-time collaborative editing online
Key facts
- Original author
- Developers
- Apache Software Foundation , Google
- Initial release
- May 28, 2009 ; 17 years ago ( 2009-05-28 )
- Preview release
- 0.4-rc10 / October 10, 2014 ; 11 years ago ( 2014-10-10 )
- Written in
- Java
- Platform
- Web platform
- Successor
- Google Buzz , Google+
- Type
- Collaborative real-time editor
- License
- Apache License 2.0
- Website
- incubator .apache .org /projects /wave .html
- Repository
- https://github.com/apache/incubator-retired-wave
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Google Wave, later known as Apache Wave, was a software framework for real-time collaborative online editing. Originally developed by Google and announced on May 28, 2009, it was renamed to Apache Wave when the project was adopted by the Apache Software Foundation as an incubator project in 2010.
Wave was a web-based computing platform and communications protocol designed to merge key features of communications media, such as email, instant messaging, wikis, and social networking. Communications using the system can be synchronous or asynchronous. Software extensions provide contextual spelling and grammar checking, automated language translation and other features.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Apache Wave” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.