I am looking into building a sort of collaborative document management application. I remembered wave from the google beta days and I remember it having two features that just astonished me, two features that could complete my design for this new CMS system im designing.
the first feature was its concurrent editing of a document. I remember the presenter creating a new wave, indicating that it was a document, not a message, sharing it with other users, and then like 6 people started editing the document in different languages at different locations, at the same time. I remember the presenter talking about the control bus that made that possible and how it was that single feature that took the longest to get right The second feature was the history replay. he was able to pull up a document and click some kind of history button and a time bar similar to windows media players showed up, he was then able to slide the bar all the way to the left to an empty document and replay each and every change that happened to that document one at a time until all modifications culminated into the present state of the document. My memory is fuzzy so i may have gotten the fine details wrong, but the essence of what those features were are here. My question is in the apache version of this thing, what are the status of those two features, what are the plans for them, and where would i find them in the old google code if they havn't been migrated over yet. thanks guys -- You want it fast, cheap, or right. Pick two!!
