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if i have a third party application,
is it possible to have a google wave robot deployed which takes the username and password from the third party application, and then act on behalf of it for the further tasks,

it is similar to having a desktop application for writing reading waves ..

Is it possible?. if so , how?

I am not sure if I understand, what do you mean by "act on behalf of it for the further tasks"?

Do you mean have the wave robot do something once the user has authenticated themselves using the robot via your third party application?

I think somebody built something like this using Adobe Air as the desktop application.

I am not sure if this one is the same as the above, but you can download it and try it.

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yes.. i am building something similar.
So can you tell how to do the authentication part ?.
Was there a robot for the app which did the work. or you can directly access the wave server from the desktop app without the use of a robot ?.
Means, is it possible to create new waves,etc directly, or a robot is required ?

Well the waver app is literally just a web browser. It’s a single column interface that renders Google Wave using WebKit.

I don't think there is another way to do this as Google will want to keep the wave since it belongs to them. It will not want third party clients taking traffic from them even though they give you the source code to create your own Google Wave server, the official Google Wave belongs to them.

I am not aware of an API they have supplied allowing you to take wave data elsewhere like Twitter has allowed with its tweets.

Btw, the last two paragraphs is just my line of thinking. I could be wrong.

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ok . thanks for the info,
Also, i wonder if it is possible to access the waves and do all the operations on a wave server deployed locally, i.e if i install the wave server locally and then have the third party application access/modify/etc the waves to/from that server.
Will this be possible .?

It would be great if you provide me with this info ,
Thanks again.

Yep, this is all possible if you are using a similar implementation to the waver application - since its essentially a "snazzy browser" and is making use of standard web requests.

For your local Google Wave implementation, if this works successfully on a browser then the waver app will work on it too so you can build a similar app.

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