Introducing the Google Wave API: what can be written for the Wave?

Duve Osinga, an engineer, a team of Google Wave API.
Alex Shelestenko, marketing, Google Russia.

Hot on the heels of the product has recently announced Google Wave, we hasten to please (in part ) of all interested programmers and Web developers: the Google Wave now has its own. Blog for Developers. There you can learn about the technical aspects of the Google Wave, especially the. Google Wave API. and. Google Wave Federation Protocol. Now we briefly explain about the Google Wave API, which we announced during the developer's release of Google Wave at the conference Google I / O.

Google Wave - a new communication tool that allows people to work together in a network more efficiently. If you have not seen a demonstration of the product, go to. wave. google. com. and see what can Google Wave.

There are two versions of Google Wave API: Embed and Extensions. Embed allows you to embed communication flows from the Wave to your own website, using a simple JavaScript API. For example, embedding Wave stream to the site, you are more active communication posposobstvuete visitors. Extensions allows you to write programs called robots or gadgets that will provide rich functionality directly within the Web Google Wave.

Robots - a circuit parties, written on the server side and perform tasks on behalf of users, including data synchronization with other services. Currently, robots are hosted on Google App Engine, and the libraries are available on the client. in Java. and. Python. We are working on a low-level API Robots that can be stored on any server in the network. Here is a sample application that can be built - Robot, which we affectionately call '. Tweety. '. It facilitates the use of Twitter within Google Wave.

Gadgets, which you may know from the. OpenSocial. Are programs on the client side, allowing to write full applications within the Google Wave. Interestingly, we have created an extension for gadgets API OpenSocial, allows you to use the collaboration in writing Wave gadget. For example, look at the screenshot the gadget with a game of Sudoku multipleerovoy (. sample. available to code. google. com):.






If you want to learn more about the Google Wave API, request. access to the sandbox. Look at the. sample code. and join us on the. Online Google Wave API.

We believe that the Google Wave interesting Russian web developers. If you have thoughts and views on the Google Wave, Google Wave API or robots and gadgets that you can write to this platform, leave comments!.