Building Real-Time Collaborative Applications with a Federated Architecture
- Pablo Ojanguren-Menendez
- Antonio Tenorio-Fornés
- Samer Hassan
ISSN: 1989-1660
Year of publication: 2015
Volume: 3
Issue: 5
Pages: 47-52
Type: Article
More publications in: IJIMAI
Abstract
Real-time collaboration is being offered by multiple libraries and APIs (Google Drive Real-time API, Microsoft Real-Time Communications API, TogetherJS, ShareJS), rapidly becoming a mainstream option for webservices developers. However, they are offered as centralised services running in a single server, regardless if they are free/open source or proprietary software. After re-engineering Apache Wave (former Google Wave), we can now provide the first decentralised and federated free/open source alternative. The new API allows to develop new real-time collaborative web applications in both JavaScript and Java environments.